These are the ones we've
found so far - listed in alphabetical order (there will be more). It's become
apparent that some installers simply affixed their nameplate to a pump supplied
by one of the larger manufacturers, and inevitably some of the names we've
listed are therefore not necessarily the makers of the pump. One Northern
Ireland foundry advertised in their catalogue that customers' names could be
cast on the head of their Belfast pattern pumps.On the topic of Belfast pattern pumps,
Marcus Simms, a bright young man in Northern Ireland, has studied them and
written up a guide on
their evolution. And some pumps aren't quite what they seem -
"Fakes &
Replicas"Apologies for the quality of some of the images - the
nameplates are usually corroded or covered in multiple layers of paint or dirt,
often damaged, and sometimes hard to get at. A wet finger will occasionally
bring up the lettering, but in some cases it's just too far
gone.

Manufacturer

Details

Trademark

Frederick Adames,7 & 8
East St.,Chichester.

In 1869 "Adames & Grant" but listed as "Frederick Adames -
Late Adames & Grant, Wholesale, Retail, Furnishing and General Ironmonger"
in the 1880 Chichester Directory. He advertised "the supply and installation of
every kind of heating apparatus and pumps for deep wells". The business was
taken over by Adolphus Ballard in 1885, who in turn sold the business to
T.E.Jay. Read more - but
it's a very large .pdf file.

D.
AdamsBallymena

The name "D. ADAMS, BALLYMENA" seen on a pump in Northern Ireland
probably refers to David Adams, 1 Galgorm Rd, Ballymena, who advertised as a
Registered Plumber and Sanitary Engineer in 1910. Also see on a pump at the
Ulster American Folk Park, and for sale in a show at Shane's Castle, Co.
Antrim.

W.
Affleck,Prospect,Swindon.

Seen on a pump in Meysey Hampton, Glos. William Affleck was born
in Gateshead in 1816, and after serving his apprenticeship in a foundry there
moved to London to work on the GWR. In about 1843 he moved to Swindon's GWR
works. In 1853 he established his own foundry and engineering works in
Prospect, Old Swindon, and by 1861 was employing 17 men and three boys. His two
sons, Frederick Samuel Hahnemann Affleck and Theodore Sykes Affleck, continued
the business after his death. Examples of Affleck ironmongery can still be seen
in and around Swindon today.
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L.
Airey,Plumber,Kendal.

This name found on a pump at Soulby Green, Cumbria.

Alexander & Duncan,Lion
Works,Leominster

Seen on a pump at Drayton Parslow, Bucks, which also carries the
Joseph Evans lion trademark. Alexander & Duncan is recorded as being
established in the mid-1800s at Lion Works, 15 Broad St., Leominster. They were
originally ironmongers, but expanded into producing pumps, drain covers, small
agricultural appliances and barns. The 1905 Kelly's Directory reports that
"Messrs. Alexander and Duncan, of the Lion Works, have a large implement
factory here, with a tram road running through the premises, which are
completely fitted with the best modern machinery: in connection with these
works is a large wholesale and retail ironmongery business". Since 2012 they
have become part of the Tallis Amos Group (TAG).

"ALLEN & SON TAUNTON" seen on a pump bought by a collector in
Carlisle (which also has "CHURCHIILL" stamped on its handle). Subsequently,
we've discovered that it's essentially identical to ones in Babbacombe, Torbay;
Bawdrip, Soms; and in all probability, ones at Weston-in-Gordano, N. Soms, and
Stoborough, Dorset. C. Allen & Son were in operation at Tone Bridge
Foundry, Taunton, by 1874. Subsequent adverts described the firm as "Tone
Foundry & Engineering Works, Taunton. Engineers, Millwrights, iron Founders
and Steam Boiler Makers". They were still advertising their products and
services in 1893, and had expanded into agricultural engineering, but in 1917,
during WW1, they were loaned a "Motor Tractor Plough" by the government and
advertised it as being available for hire in assisting local food production.
This may have been the start of their diversification, as by 1924 they were
selling cars and lorries. Later they opened branches in Bristol & Plymouth,
and were a large enough company to run annual staff outings. They were still
advertising car sales in the 1950s.(See also
"Real", below.)

Robert
W. AllenPlumberChurch StWoodbridgeSuffolk

"R.W.Allen Plumber WOODBRIDGE" seen on the town pump in
Woodbridge, Suffolk. Robert W. Allen took over his father's long-established
business in 1859, advertising himself as "Painter, Plumber, Glazier and House
Painter", and probably installed the Woodbridge pump.

Allweiler GmbH,Germany

A name seen on three pumps - one simply carrying the word
"ALLWEILER", another "ALLWEILER CARVENS", and the thIrd a semi-rotary with the
words "NO 3 ORIGINAL ALLWEILER PUMP BRITISH
MADE". Allweiler professes to be Germany's oldest pump manufacturer, having
made pumps since 1860. The company is still in operation and advertises that it
has many subsidiaries and partner companies throughout the world.

Amies
and Barford, Peterborough.

Reported as having installed a pump at Binbrook, Lincs. Amies
& Barford were a firm of ironmongers and builders merchants, and records
over the period 1860-1937 lists Barford & Perkins Ltd., as road roller and
agricultural machinery manufacturers.

A pump in Graveley,
Herts, carries on its cap the inscription:APPLEBY & Co. RENISHAW IRON
WORKSINVENTORS & MANUFACTURERSOF PUMPS WITH REGISTEREDBUCKETS
& CONE VALVES. No 4017.And another in Highstreet Green, Essex has essentially the same
wording.

The
Renishaw History Group confirms that Appleby & Co Renishaw Iron Works was
founded in the late 18 century by Thomas Appleby,
who with Edward Scholefield purchased the land for the Iron Works on 22 June
1793. Thomas died on 15 Nov 1814, and James Appleby, probably his son, is
mentioned in 1841 as being the owner. The Renishaw Iron Works was by the
mid-19th Century one of the largest in Britain, and it closed in
1999.

T.
Ashfield

Found on a pump at St. Bride's Major, Vale of Glamorgan. Not yet
positively identified identified this company, but I've found a Thomas
Ashfield, pump maker of North Malvern, Worcs, who died in 1872.

Ashwell
& Nesbit Ltd.,Barkby
Lane,Leicester.

Also at London, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester.

"No. 2 Runwell British Make" is on a pump at Sandford, Isle of
Wight, and another at Marshwood, Dorset.. "Runwell No. 5" has been seen on
pumps near Ballylesson, Co. Down and Amberley, W. Sussex. "No. 3 Runwell
British Make"
semi-rotaries have turned up in Pinchbeck, Lincs;
Thornbury, Devon; Grey Abbey, Co. Down; and in Australia and New Zealand. A No.
4 has been found on Alderney, a No. 6 in Australia, and a No. 8 in a collection
at Ballycowan, Co. Down.

Ashwell & Nesbit
was founded in Leicester in 1879 by Frank Ashwell, when the firm's main
activity was mill-wrighting. A heating department was started in 1884 with
David Mein Nesbit joining later as manager, and he became a partner in 1891.
Business expanded to cover heating ranges, ovens, cast iron railings, windows
and hosiery pressing". In 1919 a patent was taken out on "improvements in and
relating to Semi-rotary Pumps". In 1992 Ashwells was taken over with a
management buyout, the company was restructured and, as
Ashwell Biomass Ltd
of Thurmaston, Leicester, they are now deeply into the production of biomass
boilers.

"Atta'S Iron Foundry Service No: 3" [sic] - found on a pump in
Ladykirk, Scottish Borders. A complete mystery as to how this pump found its
way to this location. We've now located another one, at Wreay, Cumbs, with the
wording "Atta's Iron Foundry Service No: 6", and another example of this model
at a garden centre selling recycled stuff at Ashwell,
Rutland.

Another No.6 has been reported, still
in its original wooden packing case, which carries a number of stencilled
markings. Some of these confirm that the No.6 has a 3½" bore and
1½" suction. Further marking indicates that it was supplied by "MAYAS
POPULAR PUMPS" to the British Army's Central Ordnance Depot at Donnington, near
Telford. The pump is rusty, but still carries traces of its original green
paint, although the age of the pump cannot be determined.

William
Baily,71 Gracechurch St.,London

Found on a pump at Dunmore, Falkirk. The company advertised
themselves in 1840 as "Furnishing Ironmongers", and they exhibited in the Great
Exhibition of 1851. By 1870 William's sons, Charles and Henry Baily, were
running the company and they advertised themselves as "Manufacturing and
Furnishing Ironmongers, Smiths, Bellhangers, Gas Fitters & Stove, Grate and
Kitchen Range & Hot Water Apparatus Makers". See more detail at
http://www.valentines.org.uk/valentines_mansion/range.html

Thomas
Baker & Sons,Compton,Berks.

Seen on a 130 gal wheeled water barrel, with a hand pump mounted
on the end, at a Steam Fair in Cheltenham, Glos. The handpump had no markings.
A c.1900 catalogue of theirs advertises "liquid manure and water carts,
sanitary tumbler carts, street watering carts and vans, street sweeping
machines, builders and contractors carts, pumps and hoses". The company also
made a range of chain pumps.

Herbert
Bale,Kidderminster.

"HERBERT. BALE KIDD.R", written
on a pump at Neen Sollars, Herefs and at Eastham, Worcs. The company also made
iron railings. (See William Turton, below.)

H.
Ball, Plumber,Long Eaton

Name on a small pump barrel found buried in in-fill in Leeming
Bar, N. Yorks. The only H. Ball we've managed to trace in Long Eaton was a
Horace Ball, who was Captain of the Long Eaton Fire Brigade, 1886-1896. Not
necessarily the same person!

Ball
& Horton, Stratford-upon-Avon

"Ball & Horton, Stratford upon Avon" seen on a flywheel &
crank pump in the middle of a field near Snitterfield, Warks. Frederick Ball
and William Horton, engineers, were in business in Stratford-upon-Avon over at
least the period 1868-1913. Frederick's widow, Sarah Anne, became a partner in
1907.

Henry Bamford & SonsLeighton IronworksUttoxeter

Makers of a "Universal" in Naunton, Worcs; Carlisle, Cumbs; and
Cardington, Shrops; "Universal Deep Well Pumps" at Longstanton and Little
Shelford, Cambs; Ryton, Shrops; and Marston Montgomery, Derbs; and a "Model 2A"
in Uttoxeter. There's a Bamford's pump at Hannington, Swindon, and the name
Bamford is reported to appear on a pump in Tushingham, Chester. Multiple
Bamford's pumps abound to the North of Cambridge and there's one at
Alsonefield, Staffs.

Bamford Chain Pumps can
be found at Outgate, near Hawkshead, Cumbs; at Beamish Museum, Co. Durham;
Lodsworth, W. Sussex; in a garden in Guildford, Surrey; on farms near Charlton
Musgrove, Soms, and Apse Heath, IoW; and at the Somerset Museum of Rural Life,
Glastonbury. These typically carry a model number: "RD NO 17856". A
chain pump at Darley Dale, nr Northwood, Derbs, includes the name
"LEIGHTON".

Examples of "Bamford's Frost
Protected Lift Pumps" are at Lloc, Flint; Stanton Fitzwarren, Swindon; Great
Cubley, Derbs; Longstanton, Cambs; Market Bosworth, Leics. Further information
from someone who has taken one of these types apart is that the frost
protection was simply to box up a Bamfords Universal Deep Well Pump inside cast
iron panels and stuff it with something which looks like horse hair or chopped
up hemp insulation.

Two Bamford's pumps at
Waterbeach, Cambs, feature an additional raised plate on their barrels, one of
which carries the markings "7360 MARK 15 X".

Two more Bamford's pumps, one at Horningsea, Cambs, and the other
at Dalston, Cumbs, carry the marking "7959 MARK 14X" (the 14X means that it has
a 3½" bore).A Bamford's pump has now surfaced in Eden, Co. Antrim, with
"BAMFORD" and "UTTOXETER ENGD" on the
spout and "7972 MARK 2.X" on the barrel. Subsequently it has been pointed out
(thanks, Marcus) that there's an apparently identical model at Drumburgh
Castle, Cumbs.

The company originally set up
business in Uttoxeter as ironmongers, expanding into making pumps, taps and
agricultural implements. Joseph Cyril Bamford left the company in around 1945
to establish JCB Excavators which are still in business today as the well-known
international company, JCB. Henry Bamford & Sons continued producing farm
equipment until 1987 when they entered liquidation. See more at
http://henrybamfordandsonsuttoxeterengland.co.uk/history/beginning/.

Thomas
Barber, Ryston Cottage, Lugwardine,Herefs.

Written
article records him (b.1861) as the last of four generations of wooden pump
makers.

A. W.
Barnham

"A W
BARNHAM ENGINEER WALSINGHAM NORFOLK" seen on a pump in Sturmer, Essex, and on a
label attached to a Climax pump in Sparham, Norfolk.

"A.W.BARNHAM ENGINEER WALSINGHAM" seen on two pumps in Burnham
Market, Norfolk, and another on a pump offered for sale by an architectural
salvage company.

There is currently a garage
business by the name of A.W.Barnham at Foundry House, Walsingham.

Barrett
Exall & Andrewes,Iron
Works,Katesgrove,Reading,Berks.

This large
ironworks was founded in 1817/18, employing up to 360 people and occupying a 12
acre plot. They produced agricultural machinery and portable/fixed engines,
winning many prize medals in Britain and Europe - including one at the 1851
Great Exhibition. In 1838 they provided ironwork for Brunel's new
London-Bristol Railway. They produced a share (100) of the worlds' first
production internal combustion engines, designed in 1860 by Lenoir. They also
carried out much work for Palmer's local biscuit industry, including a
steam-driven biscuit machine. The link with Palmer continued, and their pump at
Sonning carries a dedication to Robert Palmer dated 1846. George Barrett died
in 1858, and even his memorial stone is made of
cast iron. In 1877 Alfred Palmer, one-time High Sheriff of Berkshire, married
the youngest daughter of William Exall, one of the iron foundry's partners. In
1864 the company changed its name to The Reading Iron Works Ltd, and ultimately
went into liquidation during the agricultural slump of 1888.

Barwell
& Co.,Bridge St.,Northampton

"BARWELL
& Co NORTHAMPTON" seen on a pump in Toddington, Beds. Edward Barwell
established his foundry in Bridge St., Northampton, in 1823. It was taken over
by William Rice in 1870, at which time the business employed 150 men. Rice
& Co's Eagle Foundry continued in business until 1998.

Beck
& Co Ltd, EngineersSouthwarkLondon.

"BECK
& CO LD LONDON" found on pumps in Hardwicke, Glos,
and Hereford. The name was repeated around the rim of the cap, and in the case
of the Hardwicke pump included the words "Patent Antifreezing Pump". A probable
brass bilge pump, carrying the company's name and address plus "1915", came to
light in Paris. The
name is also found on a

Bellow
& Son, Leominster.

"BELLOW
& SON MAKERS LEOMINSTER" seen on a pump at Eardisland, Herefs,and
reportedly also one one in Sarnesfield, Herefs. An 1879 directory records a
John Bellow & Son as general ironmongers, plumbers, braziers, tin &
iron plate workers, hot water fitters, & bar iron warehouse, 26 High
Street. Another directory of 1897 records the firm at the same address as
general ironmonger, bar, hoop and sheet iron merchants, plumbers, braziers,
iron and tin-plate workers, dealers in oils, colours, implements, seeds,
etc.

C.
Benson,Knaresborough.

"C.
Benson, Plumber, Knaresbro" seen on a pump in Hopperton, Yorks.

J. H.
Best,Launceston

"J.H.BEST
LANSTON" on a lead pump in Treburley, Cornwall, reportedly on another one near
Launceston, and also on one offered for sale over the internet in Oct
2012.

Beyer
Pumpen GmbH,Ahrensburg,Germany.

Makers of
a modern pump in South London. The company advertises itself as supplying
child-friendly pumps for use in children's playgrounds. They were founded in
1871 in Flensburg, moved to Luebeck in 1982 and re-located to Ahrensburg in
2014.

Board
of Ordnance

The
letters "BO" together with a War Dept arrow marking seen on pumps at Tilbury
Fort, Thurrock; Calbourne Mill, Isle of Wight; and Elizabeth Castle, St.
Helier, Jersey. Best information is that it stands for "Board of Ordnance"
(although British Ordnance has also been suggested). See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Ordnance.
Elsewhere it's recorded that BO with a broad upward arrow was in use before
1855, and WD and arrow after that date.

Robert
Boby,Bury St. Edmunds.

Robert
Boby was a major manufacturer making agricultural implements in Bury St Edmunds
from 1843 until the 1970s. At its height in the 1870s it employed about 200
men. A belt-driven pump made by the company survives in the
Museum of East Anglian Rural
Life, Stowmarket.

Bodin-Mengin,Bléré,France.

"A. BODIN"
seen on a pump offered for sale at Shane's Castle, Antrim Town, Co. Antrim.
Both Pompes Bodin and Pompes Mengin were established in 1920, and have now
merged to form the Bodin Group.

Bodley
Bros,Commercial Rd.,Exeter.

On a pump
in Hatherleigh, Devon. George Bodley established an iron foundry in Exeter in
1790 and by 1881 Owen Henry Bodley was recorded as employing 50 men and boys.
The company produced a wide range of products, including machine-tools,
traction and steam engines, and general castings. The next generation of
Bodleys didn't take any part in the running of the company, which was
henceforth adminstered by trustees, Campion the solicitors. They ran the
company until 1966, when the last of the Bodley children died, and closed it
down a year later.

"Bodley Exeter" seen on a
pump in Kenn, Devon.

F. W.
Brackett & Co,Hythe Bridge
Ironworks,Colchester.

"F.W.Brackett & Co, Engineers, Colchester - England" seen on a
pump at Belleek, Co. Fermanagh, NI. The business was founded in a former stable
in Hawkins Road in 1898 by Frank Brackett and three colleagues. In 1900 the
company moved to a new site adjoining Clacton Road and in 1909 they became a
private company. By 1961 they were advertising as "Engineers, manufacturing
pumps, water screens and strainers", although hand pumps do not seem to have
figured greatly in their product range. After various re-incarnations as
Brackett Green and Eimco Water Technologies, the company closed its Colchester
site. It is now part of the multi-national company, Ovivo. .

Braithwaite & Co,Bath Place,New Road,London.

Reported
on a pump at Harrow-on-the-Hill, Greater London. The company was famed for its
steam engines, including the first steam fire engine (see
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/John_Braithwaite),
but they were also "engaged in the manufacture of pumps, sinking wells,
&c".

Joseph
Bramah & Sons,London.

A 3-throw
pump at Little Cressingham Mill, Norfolk, carries a label "BRAMAH LONDON". This
company was founded by Joseph Bramah in 1784, and was famous for its unpickable
locks, water closets, machine tools, a hydraulic press and no end of other
ingenious inventions - including in 1797 the original beer engine (i.e., beer
pump). Some years later ex-Joseph Bramah employee William Russell founded
Hayward Tyler, a very well-known pump manufacturer (see below), and their 1815
catalogue featured products originally designed by Joseph Bramah.

Bright
Bros,Portadown

Found on a
pump at Drumnahunshin, Co. Armagh. Three generations of Bright Brothers ran the
Portadown Foundry 1879 - 1920 and are listed as being builders & hardware
merchants, selling and repairing farming equipment.

Bristow

"BRISTOW"
"Plum 1820 mer" [sic] seen on a pump in Fordingbridge Musuem, Hants. No further
information found to date.

T.
Buchanan,Dunkeld.

"T.
BUCHANAN DUNKELD" reported on a pump at Logierait, Perth & Kinloss. There
is also an example near Port William, Dumf & Gall, although it has been
confirmed that this one was previously at Blair Atholl Museum, Perth &
Kinloss.

F.H.
Buckingham,Engineers,Hethersett.

Reported
on a Climax pump at North End, Essex. The firm is recorded as being artesian
well engineers and feature at Aylsham in 1923 and elsewhere in 1929. No further
information yet.

J. U.
Bugler,Ashford.

Inscribed
on a pump at Shadoxhurst, Kent, with the date 1887. In 1861 Jonathan U. Bugler
was stated to be an ironmonger who lived at Stoke House, Church St., Ashford.
He was still there in 1882, when the Kentish Express & Ashford News of 11
March carried a report of John Udal Bugler of Ashford in bankruptcy at
Canterbury Court.

H. W.
Bullen & Sons,Well Sinkers,TrunchNorfolk

William
Bullen was a carpenter and wheelwright in Trunch, and it was his son Alfred who
started the well-sinking business. Alfred's sons Herbert and Horace continued
well-sinking until at least the 1950s.
More - including a
photograph of them boring out a wooden pump barrel. A wooden pump survives
on The Hill, Trunch, although it isn't clear if this was one of
Bullen's.

B &
E Bushell,York.

Seen on a
pump in Londonderry, N. Yorks, sited below a Joseph Evans "Lion" trademark. B
& E Bushell were a firm of York ironmongers founded by brothers Bernard and
Edward.

Callas,
Sons & May,Reading

"CALLAS
READING" seen on a flywheel & crank pump at Burghfield Hill W. Berks.
Callas, Sons & May were ironmongers in Reading, and records exist of their
sinking boreholes in the area in the late 1890s, including one at this
location.

Seen on a
pump in Broughshane, Co. Antrim. No further information, but D.Vadden might be
a shortened form of Dunnyvadden.

G. E.
Child,Southwold.

Edmund
Child established his Southwold iron and brass foundry in the early 1800s, in
what's still known as Child's Yard. His son George Edmund took over the
business in 1841, and in 1873 they built the pump in Southwold's Market
Place.

D.
Christie,Coleraine.

"D.
CHRISTIE COLERAINE" seen on pumps in Londonderry, Limavady, Ballymoney (Co.
Down) and Knockbreda (Belfast); and also at a pub in Oxford. Street directories
for 1910 and 1918 list "Christie, Daniel, plumber, gasfitter, marble and
monumental works" at The Diamond, Coleraine. (The Diamond = Town
Square.)

"CHRISTIES COLERAINE" seen on a pump
at Benburg, Co. Armagh.

"CHRISTIES LTD
COLERAINE" seen on a pump at Ballintoy, Co. Antrim.

Christies Ltd,Ballymoney.

"CHRISTIES
LTD BALLYMONEY" seen on a pump in Lisburn. No further information found
relating to this company, except for a report in a 2010 newspaper reporting
that one had been stolen from a property in Ballymoney.

Citizen

The name found on a small barrel pump in Cartmel, Cumbs and also
installed over a cistern at a private house near Charlton Kings, Glos. The
owner of the latter was able to confirm that it was bought as a barrel pump
from www.oak-barrel.com in about 1990.

A L Claeys,Zedelgem,Belgium.

Found this name on two small domestic pumps offered for sale by a
Belgian dealer at an agricultural show in Malvern, Worcs. They carried a "2"
and a trademark on their barrels - which might be CA or AC - and "Belgium" on
the handles. Alexandre Claeys established a foundry in Zedelgem from 1825, with
his son Louis and grandson Aime taking over in turn. The trademark is in use
today by Clasal of
Zedelgem, which has links with the original company and still produces a hand
pump.

J. H.
Clarke & Sons,Pump Makers,Well
Sinkers,Kenilworth.

Inscribed
on a plaque in the possession of a contact in Warwickshire, and a very similar
name appears on a pump at Princethorpe, Warks - possibly "J. I. Clarke &
Son Pumpmakers" - although the latter is corroded.

Clasal,Zedelgem,Belgium.

See
A.L.Claeys, above.

F. G.
Clements Ltd,Artisian
Specialists,Easton,Wells,SomersetEngland.

Seen on
two pumps in Easton, Somerset. The company were in existence by the mid-1910s,
and had an address at Penniless Porch, Wells. Their work seemed to be
essentially related to bore sinking or tunnel digging, and they went into
liquidation in 1971.

A fragment
of this nameplate - "CLINTO ENG" - is on a pump at Godalming, and I believe
that it originally read "CLINTON & OWENS ENGINEERS LONDON". A major
company, which later became S. Owens & Co - see below.

Alex
Clyde,1, Smithfield Sq,Ballymena.

"A CLYDE
BALLYMENA" found on an abandoned pump on the shore at Rathlin Island, nr
Ballymena, Co. Antrim, and anothers at Armoy and Gracehill, Co. Antrim. "A.
CLYDE" on a pump at Parkgate, Co.Antrim. Alex Clyde was recorded as a
registered plumber and sanitary engineer in Ballymena in 1910 and
1917.

At Parkgate, Co.Antrim, there are two
pumps with the wording "A CLYDE SUCCESSORS BALLYMENA"

Coalbrookdale & Co.

Makers of formal pumps found in Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd (see maker's
mark, opposite), and a practically indentical one at Stanton-by-Dale, Derbs.
Also at Burrington and Christon, N. Soms, and Biddington,
Wilts.Pumps at
Ickleford, Herts, Loppington, Shrops, and another in private hands in Tisbury,
Wilts, carry a round maker's mark, containing a "3", one at Padstow has a
"3½", and one near Lidgate, Suffolk, a "4".Examples of pumps are shown in the
Coalbrookdale Company Catalogue 1875, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. See:
http://www.darwincountry.org/explore/002496.html

G. W.
Coates,Plumber,Boroughbridge.

Found on a
pump in Coneythorpe, N. Yorks.

Coleman
& Morton,London Road Iron Works, Chelmsford,Essex

The names
"Coleman & Morton" found on a pump at Newport, Essex, dated 1877. The
company, originally named Coleman & Son, was established in the 1850s. They
manufactured and sold a vast range of agricultural implements, including
wagons, cultivators and water carts. The partnership was wound up in
1906.

John
Collins,32, Shop St,Drogheda,Ireland

Found on a
pump in Blackwatertown, Co. Armagh, NI. A number of pumps bearing his name are
present in the Irish Republic but, unusually, this one is north of the border
(it was re-located from Co. Meath). John Collins Ltd was an ironmongers which
had occupied the same site in Shop St for over 200 years. It closed in
1986.

Coppage
& Son,Brecon

Seen on a
Bamford's pump at Bishop Gower's Well, Llanddew, Powys. Not much information
yet found on the firm, except that they were active in the Brecon area
1904-1912, exhibiting their agricultural machines.

J
Corpin & Tobyn

Very
indistinct names found on a pump at Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk.

Henry
Cornish,Walsingham

"CORNISH
WALSINGHAM" seen on pumps in Brancaster and Great Massingham, Norfolk. A bit of
research comes up with a Henery [sic] Cornish aged 51 in 1851, recorded in the
census as "Iron Worker - Master Agricultural Implement Maker employing 15 men 6
apprentices". Elsewhere his wife Mary and their offspring James, Ezra, Jabez,
Henry and Eliza are all recorded as having key roles in the family business.
The site of their business has now been converted into housing known
appropriately as The Old Foundry.

There's a
pump in the High Street, Hemel Hempstead, which proclaims that it was
manufactured by Joseph Cranstone. His company, founded in 1798 as an
ironmongers, was located at 25, High Street, Hemel Hempstead. His son, also
Joseph, took over in 1818 and developed it into an iron foundry, which was
known as the Phoenix works, and latterly became the Hemel Hempstead Engineering
Company.

Crawford & Wilson,58, High St/Old Market,Omagh,Co.
Tyrone

"CRAWFORD
AND WILSON OMAGH" seen on a pump at Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh. In 1910
Crawford & Wilson were advertising themselves as hardware merchants,
ironmongers, seedsmen and jewellers at their High St premises and selling
china, glass, and delph at Market St. They became an incorporated company in
1926 and are still trading in Omagh today.

Crittall &
Winterton,27 Bank
St,Braintree,Essex

"CRITTALL
& WINTERTON, IRONMONGERS, BRAINTREE, ESSEX" seen on a pump in Gosfield,
Essex. Francis Berrington Crittall bought the
Bank Street ironmongers in Braintree in 1849. Following his father's death,
Francis Henry Crittall took over the firm and in 1884 began to manufacture
metal-framed windows. In 1889 the Crittall Manufacturing Company Ltd was set
up, and ultimately expanded into an international business, known today as
Crittall Windows Ltd, a leading manufacturer of steel framed windows. Francis
Henry Crittall also funded the development of the model village of Silver End
in Essex. "Crittall & Winterton" is still recalled as an ironmonger's shop
in Braintree, but who Mr. Winterton was, I've not yet been able to
discover.

J.
Currie & Co.Belfast

"J. CURRIE
& CO" seen on a pump in Fuemore, Co. Antrim. "J. CURRIE & CO BELFAST" seen on one near Newtownards,
Co.Down, and another near Moira, Co. Down.No
further information.

T.
Curtis & Son,Sanitary Plumbers,
Gainsborough

Spotted on
a solid lead pump with a willow plunger that was on sale on ebay.

Hugh
DaleBanbridge,Co Down

"HUGH DALE PLUMBER BANBRIDGE"seen on a pump in Gilford, Co. Down. No
further information found yet, other than that there was a plumber by the name
of Hugh Dale living in Rathfriland St., Banbridge, in 1911. Nearby is a cast
iron access cover with the words "BANBRIDGE FOUNDRY" on it - and there's
surprisingly little information available about this foundry.

DANDO

Seen on a
pump valve in Kent and on a diaphragm pump elsewhere. The trademark DANDO is
used by Duke and Ockenden, a company established in 1867/68, describing
themselves at the time as well sinkers and pump makers. Their manufacturing
base was at Ferry Wharf, Littlehampton, and they had a London office at 126,
Southwark St, London SE1. Following their sinking of a tube well in
Littlehampton in 1867 to obtain a clean water supply during a cholera outbreak,
the following year they supplied tube wells to Abyssinia. The company developed
into providing worldwide drilling services, equipment, wells, windmills and
pumps. They continue to operate today from their Littlehampton base, producing
drilling rigs and equipment as part of a Canadian company, Energold, of
Vancouver.

W.
Davis,Navan

Found on
the flywheel of a probable horse-driven pump at The Argory, a NT property at
Moy, Co. Armagh. No further information on the maker.

Davies
Brothers & Co. Ltd,Crown
Works,Cross St. North,Wolverhampton

This
company, established in 1838, claimed to be "one of the first galvanising
companies in the world". They occupied a
3
acre site in Wolverhampton and survived until at least 1971. A 1910
catalogue advertised a "extra strong galvanised steel contractor's pump" which
looks very much like one existing today in private hands in Ross-on-Wye -
although very similar pumps were also made by Appleby's and Joseph
Evans.

W.
Day,Churchill

Found on a
pump at Lower Langford, N. Soms, not far from the village of Churchill. No
further information found.

Dening
& Co,Crimchard Works,Chard

"DENING
& CO CHARD" found on a pump at Tatworth, Soms. The company was founded in
1828, and in 1851 were described as ironmongers and manufacturers of
agricultural implements employing 45 men and 5 boys. They were later known as
Denings of Chard, and the company closed in 1965.

William
Dickie & Sons,Victoria
Works,East Kilbride,Glasgow

"W. DICKIE
& SONS LTD EAST KILBRIDE GLASGOW" seen on
a chain pump at Kilmahog, Stirling. The company was established in 1872 and was
well-known for its windpumps. At its peak the company employed 115 men but
closed in 1965.

Dickinson,Knaresborough

"J [? or
W?] DICKINSON KNARESBRO" seen on a pump at Bishop Monkton, N. Yorks. A Thomas
Dickinson is recorded as a blacksmith of High St, Knaresborough, in 1829, and
of Low Bridge, Knaresborough, in 1837; a William Dickinson is listed as a
blacksmith in the High St in 1837.

Duke
& Ockenden

See DANDO,
above.

George
Dugan,Lisburn

"GEORGE
DUGAN LISBURN" seen on a cowtail pump at Ballycowan, Co. Down. "GEORGE DUGAN
PLUMBER LISBURN" is on one at Ballyvanen, Co.Antrim, and Ballymullan, Co. Down;
and "G.DUGAN LISBURN" seen on ones in the Museum of the Gorge, Ironbridge,
Shrops and at Dromore, Co. Down.I've been told that George Dugan (1863-1945) was a master plumber
and gasfitter who employed 6 or 7 men. He, his wife Catherine, and their 6
children lived at 3 Chapel Hill, Lisburn. There are/were several more pumps
with George Dugan's name on in the vicinity. A descendant is still in business
there today, although not connected with pumps or plumbing.

Duggan
& LyttleLisburn

Seen on a
pump at Lessans, near Saintfield, Co. Down. Another example, location unknown,
has been offered for sale on the internet. No further information
found.

Dunn of Launceton

Reported
on a lead pump head offered for sale over the Internet.

Duthie
Large & Co,The
Foundry,Leinster St.,Athy,Co. Kildare

"DUTHIE
LARGE & Co, ATHY" seen on a pump in Maidstone, Kent. In 1907 they
advertised the supply and installation of rams and windmills; in 1928 they were
recorded as employing 200 men, with the capacity to employ 3 times that number.
In 1931 a trade directory listed them as cycle agents, garages and general
motor works, and agricultural implement manufacturers. In 1939 they advertised
a very wide range of agricultural and motor products and services, and were a
main Ford agent for their area. They ceased trading in the 1980s.

W. W.
Dymond,Foregate,Callington,Cornwall

"DYMOND
CALLINGTON" and a date (188x) seen on a lead pump at Metherwell, Cornwall. W.
W. Dymond was listed in a 1901 postal directory as being an ironmongers and
plumbers in Callington, and W. W. Dymond was also listed as director of
Callington waterworks.

Charles
East & Son,74-76 High St,Burford.

A very
indistinct "C. EAST BURFORD" seen on a pump in Little Barrington,
Gloucestershire, and "C. EAST & SON BURFORD" on a pump in Taynton, Oxon. A
pump at Great Rissington is identical to the one at Little Barrington, but
doesn't carry the maker's name.

Charles East
(1837-1934) and Son are described in the trade directories as ironmongers,
engineers and water contractors. They occupied their premises from 1881 to at
least 1911 - perhaps a little later. They gradually expanded to include an iron
foundry, a machine shop and an erecting/testing shop for waterwheels. Hand
pumps formed only a part of their range, and the company was deeply involved in
waterwheel driven pumps, which were installed at a number of local
estates.

Chas.
J. Ell & Sons LtdVictoria Well WorksEmpress RdLuton

"C. J. ELL & SONS VICTORIA WELL
WORKS LUTON" seen on a large frame pump at Stockwood Park Musuem,
Luton.

The company was established in 1890 and were advertising their
services in 1930 and 1935. They were incorporated in 1952 but by 1975 were in
trouble and in 1981 went into liquidation.

Empire

"EMPIRE"
and a possible part number seen on the spout of a pump at a farm near Wormhill,
Derbs. No further information.

George
Espey & Son,Cookstown

Seen on
pumps at Rock, Co. Tyrone, and at Draperstown, Co. Londonderry.

Joseph Evans & Sons (Wolverhampton)
Ltd.

Joseph Evans & Sons (Wolverhampton) Ltd, was founded in 1810
and traded until about 1964, having been acquired by Newman Industries in 1944.
The company had depots in Cardiff, Sheffield, Manchester, Glasgow and
Newcastle-on-Tyne, and examples of their pumps are scattered widely around the
UK - and indeed further afield.

The company
used a number of trademarks before settling on a lion rampant, and with many
variations on a theme:

a. Their early
trademark seems to have been a roundel with the words "Joseph Evans and Sons
Wolverhampton" written around the name "Culwell" (the location of their works)
and with an "E" in the centre. Seen on pumps in Over Norton and Great Haseley,
Oxon; Setley, Hants; Gloucester, Glos; Bishopswood, Staffs.

b. at a location on Guernsey, at Fontmell Magna, Dorset, and on a
farm near Deanshanger, Dorset, pumps have a similar roundel but with the words
"Evans Brand England" written around "Culwell" and with an "E" in the
centre.c. A pitcher pump on the Isle of Wight
carries the words "Jos. Evans & Sons Wolverhampton England", around its
rim. Only one other example has yet been found of this, on a pump offered for
sale on eBay.

d, e, f, g, h. From about 1890
they used the lion rampant trademark on all of their pumps, with the word
"LION" written beneath. Many carry the message "Made in England", some add
"Evans Wolverhampton".

i. Some models
carryan "RD NO. 46671" - a Registered Number which must have had
some significance.

j. One in the author's
possession, one at the Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, and another at Ridgeway
Cross, Herefs, have "RD NO. 46465" on their spouts, as does one in
Ballycowan, Co. Down. Others at Studland, Dorset, and Yetminster might also
have this number.

k. Another very small pump
at Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbs, has "RD
NO. 8231" on its spout and repeated on its
base. A pump in Nottingham carries the same number.l. Another variation on the theme
(thanks to Marcus Simms for discovering this one). Unusually it shows a bore
size rather than the usual Joseph Evans numbering system, and an apparent
date., 1934.

A 1927 Joseph Evans catalogue includes some
very distinctive diaphragm pumps in their patented "OK" range, and a pump in
Haddiscoe, Norfolk, carries an "OK" on its handle, along with a patent number
on its dome. Furthermore, it's likely that Evans used the name "CHALLENGE" on
some of their range, although only the one at Amberley, W. Sussex has come to
light.

Many Joseph Evans pumps are remarkably
similar to those made by Lee, Howl & Co. Click on this
link to check out ways of telling the two makes apart.

"J.
FERGUSON DOWNPATRICK" seen on a pump at Seaforde, Co. Down. 1901 and 1910
street directories include James Ferguson, plumber, Circular Rd.,
Downpatrick.

J.
Fletcher,Plumber,Yate.

Seen on a
pump at St. Lawrence's Well, Didmarton, Glos. "Ramblinjohn" confirms that a
Joseph Fletcher was born in Engine Common, Yate in 1857, and by 1881 was
lodging at Eggshill Common, Yate, and working as a 'Plumber, Decorator and
Glazier'. By the time of the 1891 census he and his family had moved to Yate
Road and he is recorded as a 'Plumber'. In 1901 he is recorded as a 'Plumber
and Lead Worker' in Station Road, Yate. He died in Yate in 1952.

Fletcher Bros,Park
St.,Pickering

Seen on a
large metal drum next to a pump in West Lutton, N. Yorks. I'm told that the
Fletcher Bros had a foundry in Park St., Pickering. Trade directories for the
town show a William Fletcher, whitesmith, in 1834, and William Fletcher,
blacksmith, in 1840. By 1890 an M. Fletcher was recorded as a blacksmith in the
Old Cattle Market, and a John Fletcher was a blacksmith in Park St. The
Beck
Isle Museum has a photograph of blacksmith brothers Matt and Harold
Fletcher outside their blacksmith's shop in Park Street.

Fowler
& Co,Lambeth.

(also Dorset St., Fleet St.)

Reportedly
the suppliers of a series of 14 pumps along a section of the old Bath Rd from
London, of which a number still survive. The
text of an
online book on the turnpikes states that "In 1827 the Colnbrook Trust spent
£759 to dig wells, install pumps and buy new carts to water the Bath
Road. They purchased 14 pumps from Fowler & Co of Lambeth and eventually
there was a pump every 2 miles along the Bath Road through Berkshire, with 15
between Reading and Newbury". But see also Hedges Foundry,
below.We've so far located pumps at Longford,
Poyle, Charvil, two at Calcot, and Theale, but can't find out much about this
company, although there's a painting of Lambeth dated 1836 which includes
Fowler's Iron Works. There's also a panel on a pump said to date to the 1840s
at the Museum of London which has a panel reading "FOWLER, DORSET ST., FLEET ST.,
LONDON".

Freeman
Roe,Engineers,70, Strand,London.

Seen on an
impressive pump at Hexton, Herts. Freeman Roe was a large company, with
interests stretching far beyond pumps. When the
Electric
Telegraph Company developed its first underground circuits in London in
1847, Freeman Roe, "a well-known and large-scale plumbing engineer used to
laying iron piping", was contracted to lay all the subterranean cables in
London. They exhibited rams and steam engines at the Great Exhibition in 1851,
and in 1853 obtained a patent for the invention of " improvements in paving
roads and streets."

Thomas
Freethy,Acton,Middx.

In 1819
Thomas Freethy, carpenter and builder of Acton, made the pump which formerly
sat in the High St but today has been renovated and re-located to The Mount.
Records reflect his purchasing of land in Acton in 1818, but by 1823 he was
bankrupt.

Richard
Fuller,Newick.

In 1897 he
donated the substantial stone pump, still working, at Newick, East
Sussex.

G H
Pumps

Seen
around the rim of a pitcher pump at the Old Pumpe House Inn in Hastings, East
Sussex, and also on one offered for sale on eBay. The latter also carries a
"3".

Garrett
& Son,Leiston, Saxmundham,
Suffolk.

Makers of
pumps in Aldeburgh and Saxmundham, Suffolk, and almost certainly a small one at
the Rydale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole, N.Yorks. The Richard Garrett Works at
Leiston built steam tractors and traction engines, various cast metal products,
and ammunition for World Wars I & II. There's a museum in Leiston dedicated
to the history of the company.

Garton & Jarvis,Exeter.

On a pump in Chittlehampton, and also in Exeter, Devon. An 1850
trade directory lists them as ironmongers, machine makers, iron and brass
founders and "hot water apparatus mfs. to her Majesty" at 190, High St.,
Exeter.

Seen
embossed on a wooden-boxed lead pump offered for sale over the
Internet.

Wilson
Glass.

"Wilson
Glass Plumber" seen embossed on a pump in Moy, Co. Tyrone.

Glenfield & Kennedy, Kilmarnock.

Prolific
manufacturers of ornamental ironwork & fountains, drinking fountains, taps,
and the occasional pump. See:
http://www.scottishironwork.org/. Their products usually carried their name
and often featured a lion's head. They were established in 1852 as the
Glenfield Company and merged with Kennedy's Patent Water Meter Co in
1899.

Godwin Pumps Ltd.(H. J.
Godwin Ltd) Quenington,Cirencester,Glos.

"GODWIN QUENINGTON GLOS." found on an old pump in Hutton, Scottish
Borders, another identical one at Coton, Cambs, and another at Denchworth,
Oxon. Also at Knowl Green, near Belchamp St. Paul, Essex; Gweek, Cornwall;
Shipdham, Norfolk; Leaton, Shrops; and Broadwindsor, Dorset. The pump at
Broadwindsor also displays multiple part numbers - Y100, Y100D, Y101 and
Y103.

A
flywheel pump at West Wratting carries the name on its
counterweight.

The company was founded in the
late 19th Century and is now international,
Godwins UK being a
division of Godwin Pumps of America, Inc. Their founder was Harold Joynes
Godwin, who established the business to provide windmills and deep well water
pumps to local customers, and subsequently took out a
number of
patents.

One with the words "H J GODWIN
LTD QUENINGTON GLOS ENGLAND" has turned up at Abbotts Ann, Herts, which looks
very much like the scant remains of a windmill pump.

Gomy-Garnier,Chateauneuf-sur-Loire,France.

"GOMY
GARNIER CHATEAUNEUF LOIRE" seen on a chain pump at the Groes Inn, Ty'n-y-Groes,
Conwy. The company was founded in 1873 and produced a range of pumps of which
their chain pumps, termed chapelet (=rosary) pumps, were apparently the most
common in the Pithiverais region of France.

J. J.
Gosling,Engineer,Ipswich.

Found on a
pump in Pakenham, Suffolk. John J. Gosling had a business in Ipswich producing
stationary engines and deep well pumps. Latterly, there was a firm going by the
name of John D. Gosling & Co, General Water Engineers, at St. Johns Works,
Ipswich, and today in Ipswich there exists a W. G. Gosling & Sons,
Precision Engineers Ltd.

John
Gourley,Church St,Dungannon.

"J.
GOURLEY DUNGANNON" seen on a pump in storage in Co.Antrim. John Gourley,
plumber, found in 1877 and1880 Belfast / Ulster Street Directories.

A.
Grainger & SonComber,NI.

"A
GRAINGER & SON COMBER" seen on a pump at Dundonald, Co. Down, and "A.
GRAINGER COMBER" found on a pump in Derrachrin, Co. Antrim. No further
information.

Guest
& Chrimes,Foundry & Brass
Works,Rotherham

(also of Southampton St.,London)

"...IMES
ROTHERHAM" seen on a pump-like device at Ulwell, near Swanage, Dorset. The
company was established by the Chrimes brothers in 1843, and it later became
Chrimes, Neatby and Co. In 1847 it turned into Guest and Chrimes. By 1917 there
were over 400 employees, rising to over 500 by 1961.
More.

Gunton,
Sons & Dyball,30-42, St. George St.,
Norwich

Seen on a
pump at Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambs. The company traded as wholesale ironmongers,
and I've found records dating from 1895. In 1912 their address was given as 34
& 36 St. Geoge St. and they were also described at "importers of
horticultural glass". In 1942 their premises were recorded as being hit during
an air raid.

HB

Seen on a
very rusty pump in the Tidal Mill, at Carew, Pembs. Within the "B" are the
probable numbers 6 and 5. Could this be Herbert Bale of Kidderminster? (See
above.)

J. Hall &
Sons,Bristol.

"J. HALL
& SONS BRISTOL" and a number "1461" seen on the cap of a Colonial style
pump at Manston, Dorset. So far, I've not been able to identify the
company.

Hall & Son,Hammet St.?.

A very
indistinct "HALL & SON", a clear "HAMMET STREET", and an indeciperable
further word seen on the cap of a pump in Woodleigh, Devon. The pump also
carries a fouled anchor symbol, which is found on pumps of very similar design,
but without the manufacturer's name, in East Cowes, Downend and Shorwell, Isle
of Wight. The design of these pumps seems to be very similar to MacFarlane No.1
models.

J. & F. Hall Ltd,Worcester.

Found on a pump on the Cowleigh Rd, just outside Malvern, and on
two pumps in Clevelode, Worcs. J & F Hall was a well-known Worcester
"ironmongers, iron merchants, and iron founders", whose 16th Century
timber-framed premises at the junction of The Shambles and Church St were
demolished in the 1960s, to be replaced by a hideous monstrosity.

Halsted
& Sons,Chichester,W. Sussex.

On a pump
at Slindon and at Chichester, W. Sussex. According to an 1851 Post Office
Directory for Chichester, Halsted & Sons were "ironmongers, iron &
brass founders, plumbers, smiths &c. East St". In 1867 they were mentioned
in Kelly's Directory as "Halsted & Sons, furnishing ironmongers, East
street", and in 1909 as Halstead [sic] & Sons, ironmongers, 81 & 82
East St & East Pallant. They were established in the 1840s, and there's a
document which records that in 1841, Charles Halsted, ironmonger, plumber and
glazier of Chichester took out a "LEASE for 21 years of a dwelling house and
shop on the south side of the East Street, partly in the parish of St. Peter
the Great otherwise the Subdeanery and partly in the parish of All Saints
otherwise the Pallant, in the city of Chichester". But the ironmongery
connection might go back further than this: it's reported that "The first
Goodwood winner, at the meet organised by the local Charlton Hunt and the
Sussex Militia, was a black mare owned by local ironmonger Mr Halsted" - and
that seems to have been in 1801/1802. The business started to decline in the
1930s, eventually closing down in 1936, on the death of the last remaining
sons. Moreon the
Sussex Industrial History Archive's website (large .pdf file).

W. D.
Hanna5, High St.,Lurgan

"W D HANNA
LURGAN" seen on a pump in storage in Co. Antrim, and in a private collection in
Ballycowan, Co.Down. Possibly also one in Belfast. W. D. Hanna was trading at 5
High St., Lurgan, in August 1923, but according to the Belfast Gazette in
November 1933 William David Hanna was declared bankrupt. A plumbing firm by the
name of Hanna Bros currently trades at 95, Union St, Lurgan.

"Headly
& Manning, Engineers, 1853, Cambridge" seen on a pump in Cambridge &
County Folk Museum. James Ind Headly and Edward Ind Headly set up the Eagle
Foundry at Market Hill, Cambridge, in 1843, soon to move to Mill Rd. In 1852
the partnership was dissolved and James Headly went into business with John
Manning, trading at the Eagle Foundry as Headly & Manning. The business
continued under this name until James retired in 1887. In the meantime, Edward
Headly had set up as an ironmonger and ironfounder in Corn Exchange Street, and
in 1885 he and his son, Laurence, established the Exchange Ironworks at 341
Newmarket Road. At some stage, ca 1900 perhaps, Laurence Headly went into
partnership with Arthur Edwards, trading as Headly & Edwards. The company
ceased trading in the 1920s.

J. H.
Heathman & Co,Engineers,Endell St,Long Acre,London W.C.

This
company advertised pumps, including a gardener's barrow pump, ladders, fire
escapes and fire fighting equipment from at least 1874. In 1894 they displayed
a Telescopic Ladder Tower at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show. In later
years, 1910-1922, their adverts carried the address Parson's Green, London.
Their pumps seem mainly to be Joseph Evans models, but some carried a rose
trademark, very simialr to the unidentified model seen at Kent's Bank, Cumbria,
and one or two other locations (see below).

Hedges
Foundry,Bucklebury,Berks.

Hedges
Foundry, located on the banks of the River Pang, was established in the 18th
century, taken over by the Whatley brothers in 1947, and continued in business
until about 1960.
Some
evidence suggests that Hedges produced and installed at least some of the
turnpike pumps along the Old Bath Road - the A4 - but conflicting evidence also
points towards Fowlers, see above.

W. Hemming,Burford.

Seen on a pump in Great Barrington, Glos. William Hemming of
Burford was in business from 1840, advertising himself as "Engineer and
Ironmonger, Pumps and Water works of every description". He supplied a wide
range of pumping machinery across Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. The 3rd
image down was found on the back of a pump in Holwell, Oxon, a village very
close to Burford.

Herring
Foundry,Chertsey.

"HERRING
& SON CHERTSEY" seen (a) on a cast iron pump trough in Chobham, Surrey, and
(b) a pump at Folkingham, Lincs. The company was established about 1815 at
Gogmore Lane, Chertsey, establishing a good reputation both in the UK and
abroad, and closed down in 1982.

a.

b.

Charles
M. Hesford & Co Ltd,Market Row,
Moorgate,Ormskirk,Lancs

"C M
HESFORD & CO LTD ORMSKIRK" seen on a pump offered for sale on ebay. The
company was established on Market Row, Ormskirk, by Charles Martin, and
originally specialised in agricultural engineering. An advertisement of 1914
quoted "Agricultural Engineers, Farmers' Implement and Machinery dealers.
Specialities: Farmers' Requisites, Cycles and Hardware". The company moved
location in 1978 and became a retail concern in 1983, under William Martin, the
grandson of the founder.

Charles
M. Hesford & Co Ltd,Market Row,
Moorgate,Ormskirk,Lancs

"C M
HESFORD & CO LTD ORMSKIRK" seen on a pump offered for sale on ebay. The
company was established on Market Row, Ormskirk, by Charles Martin, and
originally specialised in agricultural engineering. An advertisement of 1914
quoted "Agricultural Engineers, Farmers' Implement and Machinery dealers.
Specialities: Farmers' Requisites, Cycles and Hardware". The company moved
location in 1978 and became a retail concern in 1983, under William Martin, the
grandson of the founder.

George
Hill,Plumber,Hartfield.

"HILL" and
"1831" seen on a cast iron-clad pump in Hartfield, E. Sussex. George Hill,
plumber, is listed in an 1851 Hartfield trade directory, and Kelly's 1867
Directory lists George Hill of Hartfield, "plumber, painter, glazier &
farmer". He was probably b. 1801. It is highly probable that he installed the
pump, but unlikely that he would have produced the castings.

Edward
Hoey,13, Chapel Hill,Lewes.

"E. HOEY
PLUMBER LEWES" seen on a pump advertised for sale on eBay, which is identical
to one at Glynde, Sussex, and almost identical to one at Beddingham, Sussex.
Edward Hoey was described as a Journeyman Plumber in the 1881 Census for South
Malling, Lewes, but by the time of the 1891 and 1901 Censuses he had advanced
to the rank of Plumber. George and Edward Hoey's plumbing business at 13,
Chapel Hill, was still in existence in 1951.

N.
Holman & SonsSt. Just andMarket Jew Street, Penzance.

"Holman
& Sons, Penzance" seen on a pump at Trequite, near St. Kew, Cornwall.
Nicholas Holman (1777- 1862) formed a company with his four sons in 1801. They
expanded into Penzance in 1840, became a limited company in 1894, and in 1911
they were recorded as being mining, shipping and general engineers specialising
in Cornish ranges, mitre machines, engines and boilers for mines, mine castings
and general mining material. Holman Brothers was employing 2,500 staff by 1961,
and also operated as N. Holman & Sons (Ship Repairers) Ltd., but it looks
like the company was finally wound up in 2011.

W.
Home,Shrewsbury.

Reportedly
the manufacturer of a pump in Downton, Shrops.

W.
Hoskin,Plympton.

Seen on a
lead pump at Holbeton, Devon.

W.
Houston,Georges St,Omagh.

"W.
HOUSTON OMAGH" found on a pump in Limavady, Co. Londonderry, and at the Ulster
American Folk Park, Omagh. A advert from the 1870s gives their address as
Georges St.

Hughes & Gotto,97 Queen
Victoria St.,LondonE.C.

"HUGHES
& GOTTO ENGINEERS LONDON" seen on a flywheel & crank pump at Abinger
Common, Surrey. They were described as Water Supply Engineers and "Specialists
for Hydraulic Rams & Automatic Controlling Apparatus" in an undated
advertisement, and also featured in an 1895 advertisement. No further
information.

B.
Hume

Seen on a
pump in Chorley, Shrops.

Hutchings,Plumber,Ilminster

Found on a
pump in Stocklinch, Soms and reportedly also on one in Ilton, Soms. Hutchings
and Sons were apparently an old established plumbing firm in the Ilminster area
which ceased trading in about the 1990s.

Huxham
& Brown's,Ironfounders & Millwrights, Commercial
Rd,Exeter

Seen on a
pump offered for sale on ebay. Frederick Huxham (d.1859), the son of
ironfounder William Huxham (d. 1839), was recorded as an ironfounder, engineer
and stove manufacturer in Exeter. By 1846 Huxham & Brown's was established
as ironfounders and smiths, with their works in Commercial Road. In 1883 they
advertised themselves as "Tanners' engineers", making machinery for the leather
trade, a description which they continued to use until 1910. In 1930 they were
acquired by J. L. Thomas & Co, Ltd.

W.
Huxtable,Ironfounders & Agricultural Engineers,High St,Honiton

"HUXTABLE
HONITON" seen on a trough under an unmarked pump at Hawkchurch, Devon. W.
Huxtable is listed as ironfounders and agricultural engineers of High St,
Honiton, and Fairmile in the late 1800s

Ideal

Seen on a
stopcock fitted to a lift & force pump in Coleshill, Oxon. No further
info.

G.
Ingold, Bishop's Stortford.J. Ingold,Bishop's Stortford

There are
numerous pumps in Essex carrying the name "G. INGOLD" - e.g., at Chrishall (5
pumps), Sheering (4), Matching (2), Great Canfield, Ridgewell, Widdington,
Hadstock, Thaxted and Brewer's End, Takeley. There's a clutch of them at
Pampisford, Cambs, and others in Owlswick, Bucks, and Churton, Cheshire. The
very distinctive spout carried by some Ingold models also points towards pumps
at Braughing, Herts, and Epping Green, Essex, being made by Ingold's.

G.
Ingold, Pump Makers and Well Sinkers, had their workshop in Apton Road in
Bishop's Stortford. The business was started by John Ingold of Rye St, Bishop's
Stortford, in 1851, and upon his death in 1899 it was carried on by his son,
George.Pumps with the name "J. INGOLD" are rare
indeed, but one's now been found at Little Dunmow, Essex.

H.
Inston.

Said to be
on a pump at Mutton Hall, Redditch. The word "INSTON" also appears on a pump in
St. Martin, Guernsey.A pump offered for sale
online carried the words "INSTON KIDDER", and another
"J. THOMAS LATE INSTON. KIDDR".

Reported
on pumps at Ballycastle, Loughguile, Derrykeighan and Armoy, Co. Antrim,. R.
Jamison was a plumber in Ballymoney High St in the early 1900s.

William
James & Sons,Ironmongers,Gwalia House,Market
Sq.,Cardigan

"W. JAMES
& SONS CARDIGAN" found on a Joseph Evans pump (Lion trademark) at Crymych,
Pembs. William James traded from his home and business premises at 14 & 15
High St., Cardigan, until Oct 1887, when he moved to Gwalia House, in the same
town. William died the following year, but the business was carrried on by his
widow and sons. They expanded the business to become William James & Sons,
Gwalia Garage. The military authorities took over the house in 1939, in 1952
the premises were bought by F. W. Woolworths, who re-built on the site in
1978.

Current producers of a range of pumps, one of
which is their "Big Nostalgic", recognisable by a frog embellishment on the
spout, and also offered for sale by Kovoplast, of the Czech Republic. Jiangyang
pumps carry the model numbers BSA-75, BSB-75, BSC-75, BSD, BSF, BSL, BSK, BSM
or GBS-86.

A company
in Germany which specialises in creative play equipment, and who have supplied
a modern water pump to Durley Chine paddling pool, Bournemouth.

C.
Keeley, Plumber,Harleston.

Reported
on a lead pump offered for sale on the Internet.

Charles Keeley
advertised himself as "New and Secondhand Furnisher, Plumber and Decorator" and
traded in the Old Market Place, Harleston, Norfolk.

James
Kelly, St. Canice's Place,Kilkenny,Ireland.

"KELLY AND
SON ENGINEERS KILKENNY" seen on a pump in Londonderry. This is probably James
Kelly, whose business is listed in 1884 as an Agricultural Implement
Manufactory in St Canice's Place, Kilkenny. Elsewhere it is described in 1884
as being in St Canice's Place, site unknown.

Kennedy's Ltd, 167,
Holdenhurst RdBournemouth

"... HOLDENHURST ROAD KENNEDY'S
BOURNEMOUTH LTDBOURNEMOUTH" seen on a label
attached to a Lee Howl pump at Winterborne Stickland, Dorset.
[The missing digits before HOLDENHURST ROAD will almost
certainly be 167 - the address of their headquarters.]

Kennedy's were builders' merchants & plumbers who occupied
various properties in Bournemouth. By 1920 they were at 45, 47 & 49
Holdenhurst Rd, and in 1930 they added newly-built premises at 167 Holdenhurst
Rd, which became their showrooms and head office. They had a number of other
depots in Andover, Boscombe, Branksome, New Milton, Poole, Southampton, Taunton
and Winton. They were taken over by Travis Perkins in the late
1980s.

Thomas
Kerr,Castle St.,Portadown

"THOMAS KERR PORTADOWN" seen on a pump in Derrylee, near Maghery,
Co. Armagh. He is listed in various 1910 trade directories as a plumber, or as
a plumber, sanitary and heating engineer.

Killon
& Sons, Egerton St,Chester.

"J & W
KILLON CHESTER" seen on a pump at Preston-on-the-Hill, Halton, and "J & W
KILLON 1874 CHESTER" on one at Waverton, Cheshire. The name J. Killon & Co,
pumpmakers and wellsinkers of 30 or 31 Egerton St., Chester, appears in 1864
and 1902 trade directories. Elsewhere a late "William Killon, pumpmaker" is
mentioned.

W.
Kinsman,Launceston

"W.KINSMAN
LANSON" seen on a lead pump in Launceston museum. (Lanson is an old form of
Launceston.) In 1891 a William Kinsman was a plumber's apprentice in South
Petherwin - very near Launceston - and another of his pumps can still be found
at South Petherwin, with information to confirm that it was installed there in
1898.

W. J.
Knox & Sons, Railway St,Lisburn.

"W. J.
KNOX & SONS LISBURN" seen very indistinctly on a pump in Armoy, Co. Antrim.
"W. J. KNOX & SONS LISBURN" and "R. KNOX LISBURN" seen on pumps offered for
sale in Dromore, Co. Down. No information has been found on R. Knox, but Messrs
W. J. Knox & Sons, Railway Street, Lisburn, were established in about 1850.
William John Knox himself died in 1878, but the firm continued until about
1970, being recorded as having installed the plumbing, electric and gas
fittings in Lisburn Central Primary School in 1934.

Kovoplast,Czech
Republic

The
Kovoplast Company of the Czech
Republic currently make a number of pumps, including one marked NP75, and
others marked STANDARD T or STANDARD II. Their older pumps also include a
trident trademark, but this seems nowadays to be reserved solely for the Sigma
group - see below. A old STANDARD T pump found in Exton, Devon, carries the
trident mark, but also includes the additional markings ON112230 and 97485.
Just to confuse things even further, the company seems to produce (or
distribute?) a so-called "Big Nostalgic" pump apparently identical to that made
by the Jiangyan Fashion Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd., China (see above).
Some evidence to suggest that their pump handles can carry a discrete "C"
marking.

There's an
NP75 pump at Whitchurch Hill, Oxon, and an NP75T pump at Sywell Country Park,
Ecton, Northants.

"S
LACEY[?] PLUMBER WYCOMBE 18.." seen on a lead pump on the Hughenden Estate,
High Wycombe. The only tenuous candidate might be Samuel Lacey, b. High Wycombe
and listed as a plumber in the 1861 and 1871 censuses.

Chas Lack & Sons Ltd,Engineers,CottenhamCambs

Seen on pumps in Bassingbourn, Little Shelford and Whittlesford,
Cambs; and (until the sign was lost) at Hadstock, Essex. Charles Lack and Sons
were agricultural engineers (pumps, boilers, etc) and well-sinkers. They were
in business from about 1875 to no later than 1978. They produced a unique
design of flywheel pump, using a weighted chain arrangement, found at Hadstock,
Clavering and Elmdon, Essex; and West Wratting, Cambs.

LambBerwick

A pump
near Horncliffe, Northumberland, carries the name "LAMB BERWICK". A David
Alexander Lamb traded as a plumber and glazier in Berwick upon Tweed in the
mid-1800s. Later the company was known as David A. Lamb & Son, 13
Woolmarket, and by 1908 the business had been taken on by the son, George
Manners Lamb.

Lambeth
Brass & IronCo
Ltd.91 & 93 Southwark St London
SE

They
were advertising in 1901. No further information at present.

George
Le Feuvre,Bath St,St.
HelierJersey.

A plaque
(now lost) reading "G.LE FEUVRE IRON FOUNDER JERSEY 1862" was once on a pump on
Mont Les Vaux, St. Aubin, in the parish of St. Brelade, Jersey. (Fittingly, Le
Feuvre = The Smith.)

Le
Grand & Sutcliff,Bunhill
Row,London EC.

Found on a
pump at Langport, Soms, dated 1878. They were established in 1872 at 100
Bunhill Row, London, became a private company in 1920 and a public company in
1948. In 1961 they are recorded as "Civil engineers, well drillers, undertaking
manufacture of specialised equipment for oil industry, such as pumping units,
casing heads and other well head equipment". In 1889
an advertisement showed that they also had a
Westminster branch at 7, Great Queen St., SW. Latterly known at Le Grand,
Sutcliff & Gell. Further information from
wellmasters.co.uk has revealed that
Le Grand & Sutcliffe were well known well diggers operating on the south
coast, installing wells (brick lined and mainly large scale - 1 metre plus)
from Brighton to Devon.A pitcher pump in Dymchurch, E. Sussex, has the words "LEGRANDES"
and "LONDON" around the rim, and possibly some other letters which are hidden
from view.

T.
Leake,Plummer [sic].

Reported on a pump in Wymeswold, Leics. Good name for a
plumber!

Lee, Howl & Co.Tipton,Staffs

Lee, Howl, Ward & Howl was established in
Tipton, Staffs, in 1880, and from this emerged in 1887 the firm of Lee, Howl
& Co. Examples are commonly found all over the country, second only in
number to Joseph Evans pumps. There is a persistent rumour that back in the
early days Joseph Evans's chief designer apparently defected to Lee Howl, and
from this time onwards some of their pumps bore a striking similarity to those
of Joseph Evans. An article in "Old Glory" magazine of March 1994 provided
confirmation that Lee Howl pumps carried a flag trademark (to copy the lion
would have added insult to injury). Click on this link
to check out other ways of telling the two makes apart.

(See also the entry for Paragon, below.)

There's a Lee Howl chain pump at a farm near Leigh,
Dorset.

John
Lemon & Son,33, East Bridge
St,Enniskillen.

"JOHN LEMON & SON ENNISKILLEN" seen on a pump at
Derrygonnelly, Co. Fermanagh. References have been found to their being
"General Ironmongers, Timber Merchants, Plumbers, Bellhangers and Gas". They
were referred to as shipping agents in 1871 and had a quay at the back of their
premises. They were certainly still trading in 1915.

Lewis,Launceston.

"LEWIS LANSON" seen on a pump in Pipers Pool, Cornwall, and
also on one offered for sale over the internet in 2003. "Lewis Launceston" pump
offered for sale over the internet in Oct 2012.

William
Ligget,Linenhall St/Bridge St
Ballymena

"W. LIGGET
BALLYMENA" seen on a highly corroded pump at the Ulster Folk & Transport
Museum, Holywood, Co. Down, and also on a pump at Ardnaglass, Co. Antrim.
William Ligget advertised himself in the Ballymena newspapers as a "Plumber,
Bell-hanger and Gas Fitter, Copper and Tin Worker and Lead Merchant". His name
first appears in 1855; by 1859 he was working from Linenhall St, and by 1876
had moved to 16 Bridge St, Ballymena. He advertised regularly until at least
1884, but by 1889 he described himself as a "Lead and Metal Merchant" of Bridge
St. It is likely that he died in 1890.

G.
Lines & Sons,2, Lode
Lane,Solihull

"G. LINES & SONS ENGINEERS SOLIHULL"
reported on a pump purchased from an architectural salvage company and
undergoing renovation.

"G. LINES PUMP MAKER
SOLIHULL" or "G. LINES AND SONS PUMPMAKERS SOLIHULL" also seen on Joseph Evans
pumps at Ladbroke, Lowsonford, Pinley Green and Norton Lindsey, all in
Warks.

"Messrs. G. Lines & Sons of
Solihull, plumbers and well engineers" were mentioned in a 1937 document, and a
number of times in 1965/66 as being at 2, Lode Lane, Solihull.

Also noted stamped on the brass spout of a lead pump in St.
Martin, Guernsey.

Although it's corroded, a
pump in St. Peter parish, Jersey, seems to have the name spelled "LEWELLEN
& JAMES"Llewellins & James were
well-known bell founders, but were also described as being "brewery engineers"
and makers of "philosophical instruments" - i.e.,
mathematical.

Some advertising literature from
about 1860-1870 gives their address as Castle Green, Bristol, and offers
lifting pumps, ship or rum pumps, jack pumps (subsequently discovered that this
is another term for a lift & force pump), garden engines, copper brewers'
pumps, etc.

a.

a.

b.

c.

Lock,Topsham,Devon.

"LOCK
TOPSHAM" found on a pump in Topsham, Devon.

Lott
& Walne Ltd,The Foundry,Dorchester

Lott &
Walne were described as engineers, ironfounders and agricultural implement
manufacturers. They traded at least over the period 1899-1955, and a building
carrying their name is still standing in Dorchester. A 1909 catalogue lists
their liquid manure and water carts with detachable pumps, including a "Strong
4in improved type detachable lift pump" at £3-0-0, and a "Strong 4in
detachable lift and force pump" at £5-0-0. Their name appears on pumps in
(a.) Piddlehinton and (b.) Melcombe Bingham, Dorset.

a.

b.

J.
Lowden & Co,Belfast

Seen on a
cowtail pump in Hilltown, Co. Down; at Mount Stewart, Co. Down; at Loughries,
Co. Down; and on a pump offered for sale via the internet. No further
information.

R. F.
Luxton,Plumber &
ironmonger,Holsworthy

"R. F.
LUXTON" seen stamped on the lead cap of a pump in Pyworthy, Devon. A Russel
Frederick Luxton , b. 1908, is listed as a plumber & ironmonger in
Holsworthy in 1939.

Walter MacFarlane & Co.,Saracen Foundry,Glasgow.

MacFarlane's was by the 1890s the biggest manufacturer of sanitary
& architectural ironwork in Britain - possibly even in the world. They were
famed for their ornate fountains, which they sold as far afield as Australia -
and for a detailed history of the company and record of their products see:
http://www.scottishironwork.org/database.asp.
Only a very few of their basic village pumps seem to have survived, two of
which are on the Isle of Bute, one at Field Broughton, Cumbs, and for some
reason there's one at the Bovey Tracey Pottery Museum, in Devon. One bearing
all the hallmarks of a MacFarlane village pump (but no ident) is near New
Abbey, Dumf & Gall, and there's also a splendid municipal pump in Caistor,
Lincs.

Marcus Simms has noticed that the pumps
at East Cowes and Shorwell, Isle of Wight, are essentially identical to a
MacFarlane's No. 1 pump, but with the addition of an emblem comprising a
rope-entwined anchor - see below. Current thinking is that they might have been
produced by MacFarlanes under an Admiralty contract. (The company also provided
the municipal fountain in Cowes.)

Mackney
& Admonds,Delf St.,Sandwich

Makers of
a pump at the junction of Delf St/King St/Market St, in Sandwich, Kent.
Melville's 1858 Directory of Kent lists them as "millwrights, smiths,
ironmongers, etc., Delf street".

"E.
MARGRETT READING" seen on two, possibly three, pumps in Hambleden, Bucks.
Edward Margrett was listed as an ironmonger in Reading at least as early as
1871. In 1882 he exhibited at a Royal Agricultural Show a pump he had made in
connection with Norton's Tube Wells. His
address was given as 1 King St, Reading, and his works - Kennet Iron Works -
were at King's Rd., Reading. In 1882 he described himself as "Artesian Well
Borer, manufacturer of all kinds of Heating Apparatus, Fencing and Wrought Iron
Work". His advertisement offered Norton's Patent Tube Wells and every
description of Pumps for Hand, Horse or Steam Power". In 1892 he described
himself as a hydraulic and sanitary engineer, and is recorded as having
established many boreholes and artesian wells all over Berkshire. He seems to
have retired by 1901, but continued to advise the company of Margrett &
Allsebrook of High Bridge Works, Duke St, Reading. He died aged 73 in 1914,

Maric
Fabrications,Kidderminster.

"1999
MARIC FABS" found on a pump at Stoke Prior, Herefs. Maric Fabrications is a
company in Kidderminster, and the pump has the look of a modern
replica.

Martin

"MARTIN"
and "FOREIGN" seen on a pump in Hellingly, E. Sussex.

C.P.Martin,Engineer,Harpenden

Seen on a
flywheel & crank pump at Newnham, Herts.

Matterson, Huxley & Watson Ltd,Lion Foundry,Coventry

Catalogue
found at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum library by Alison Muir - thanks,
Alison. The company also had a London office and showroom at 57/60, Holborn
Viaduct, EC1. Elsewhere they appear listed as a private company in 1890, and in
1912 appear as "Iron, Brass and Aluminium Founders and suppliers of Castings
for Motors". By 1961 they are "Ironmongers and structural engineers
specialising in agricultural machinery, hardware and tools". Among a small
range of pumps they advertised their "Matto" Double Acting Plunger Pump, one of
which still exists in private hands at Cupar, Fife. Their Lion trademark does
look very similar to that of Joseph Evans, but there's no obvious link between
the two companies.

Mayrs
& Huston,Coleraine

Reported
on a cowtail pump at Knocknadona, near Lisburn, Co. Antrim. So far we've not
been able to find out anything more about this firm.

J.
McCandless,10, Church St.,Coleraine.

Name seen
on a pump at Capecastle, near Ballycastle, Co. Antrim. John McCandless Ltd,
Plumber, Gasfitter & Ironmonger of Coleraine, were at one time at 10 Church
Street, and there is still a John McCandless plumbing supply company in
Coleraine, although at a different address.

McCann,Omagh,Co. Tyrone.

"McCANN RP
OMAGH" seen on a pump at the Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh. No further
information found. (RP = Registered Plumber.)

T.
McCleave,Holywood,Co. Down.

"T.
McCLEAVE HOLYWOOD" seen on a pump at Seapark, Holywood. No historical
information found but there is a still a company by the name of T. McCleave
operating from an address in Holywood.

H. H.
McErlean,Magherafelt

"H. H.
McERLEAN M_FELT" seen on pumps in Clady and Draperstown, Co. Londonderry, and a
1958 newspaper advertisement shows the company as Plumbers, Sanitary &
Heating Engineers at Queen St., Magherafelt. Name seen as "H. H. MCEARLEAN KNOCKLOUGHRIM" at Cloagh, Co. Londonderry and also on
a pump on display at a garden centre in Weston, Lincs.

A.
McKenzie,Castle St,Lisburn.

"A.
McKENZIE LISBURN" seen on a pump at Carricknadarriff, near Annahilt,
Co. Down, and also on a pump in storage in Co. Antrim. Ulster trade directories
for 1877 and 1880 record Alex McKenzie, gas fitter and plumber, Castle Street.
By 1901 and 1907 the entry is "McKenzie, Mrs., gas fitter & plumber, Castle
Street".

H.
McManus & Sons,Randalstown.

Seen on
Belfast pattern pumps at Lisburn and Baileysmill, Co. Down. This company has
been in existence since the late 1800s and is still trading as McManus
Hardware, 1-3, Main St., Randalstown.

H.
McManus & Sons,Ballymena.

Name seen
on a probable Chinese replica Irish cowtail pump at a country show. See also
Rankin, John McNiece and Tianjin Shirun International Trade Co., Ltd.,
below.

John
McNiece,53, Mill St,Ballymena

"JOHN
McNIECE BALLYMENA" seen on a pump in Broughshanen, Co.Amtrim; also "[...]
McNIECE BALLYMENA" on a pump at Derrytrusk, C'Tyrone.

"McNiece, Ballymena" reported on a pump in Burlington, Ontario,
which in 1902 was on a farm near Ballymena. This is good evidence that it's an
original, and not a Chinese copy. The 1907 and 1910 Belfast/Ulster Street
Directories list "McNeice, John, cycle agent, registered plumber and sanitary
engineer, Factor of Close Ranges, Tiled Grates, etc., 53 Mill
Street".

Thos
Meredith,Malvern.

Seen on a
pump at the Rose & Crown, Redmarley, Glos, and one for sale on the Internet
carried the name "Meredith Malvern".

"R.R.MILES" and "LEOMINSTER" found on a pump at Bircher, Herefs.
"R.R.& W.MILES" and "LEOMINSTER" seen on a pump at Newborough, Staffs. "H.
MILES" and "LEOMINSTER" seen on a pump in St. Michael's,
Worcs.

I've been told by a descendant of
Richard (thanks, Catherine) that he had a foundry in Leominster from 1861 with
his brother William. Later his son, Henry, took it over before it was sold to
an electricity company at the start of the 20th century.

Millfield Foundry,Belfast

Reported
on pumps at Portadown and Dromore, Co. Down. Also on one near Birches, Co.
Tyrone. Messrs. James Moore and Sons, Millfield Foundry, Belfast, are listed in
Belfast street directories from 1877; in 1901 they appear as "Moore, Jas.,
& Sons Ltd., Millfield Foundry and engineering works, 102 to 116
Millfield"; but in 1907 & 1910 the entries read "Millfield Foundry
(Successors to Jas. Moore & Sons Ltd.), Foundry and Engineering Works, 102
to 116 Millfield".

J.
Miskelly,Newtownards

"J.
MISKELLY NEWTONARDS " [sic] seen on a pump at Mount Stewart, Newtownards, Co.
Down. No further information, but there is still an O. Miskelly trading as a
plumber in Newtownards.

John
Mitchell,Wimborne Minster

"[J?]
MITCHELL PLUMBER" seen on a lead pump dated 1766 at the
Priest's House Museum, Wimborne
Minster. The will of a John Mitchell, plumber, of Wimborne Minster was lodged
in 1817.

Mono
Ltd,Manchester.

Label seen
on a modern pump at Kew Steam Musuem.

A. G.
Mumford,Culvert St Iron Works,Colchester

"Engineer,
Iron and Brass Founder and Boilermaker", who made deep well pumps. Found in an
old catalogue.

The
F.E.Myers & Bro Co,347 Fourth St,Ashland, Ohio

"F.E.MYERS
& BRO", "THE ASHLAND" and "ASHLAND O.U.S.A" see on a pump at Pencader,
Carms. Brothers Francis and Philip Myers founded the company in 1870, initially
making farm implements and then moved into pump making. They expanded into
industrial pumps and sold up in 1960 to the McNeil Corp of Akron, Ohio. In 1986
Pentair Inc. of St. Paul, Minnesota, acquired them and they still trade as part
of their water products group under the Myers name today.

Newman
Hender & Co,Woodchester,Stroud,Glos

The
trademark "NH" can be found on semi-rotaries at Theescombe and Pinfarthings, in
the Nailsworth/Amberley area of Glos. One carries the inscription
"No1", and the other "No4", which commonly
on such pumps refer to the bore size. Another at Birdlip, Glos, is a
No6, and there's a further semi-rotary at Thwaite's Mill,
Stourton, W. Yorks. Mangerton Mill, in Dorset, has a No1 mounted on a tripod,
and there was a very small portable NH semi-rotary fitted to a monopod at a
Steam Fair in Cheltenham, Glos, in 2009.Newman Hender & Co was formed in 1896, when
Hender Stevenson & Co of Nailsworth merged with Newman & Co, of
Woodchester. They became one of the UK's leading manufacturers of industrial
valves, expanding significantly in the 1960s and 1970s, when they supplied
valves for the North Sea oil and gas industry, and were the largest employer in
the area. However, they were eventually bought out, and the site was closed in
1994. A very detailed company history can be found at
http://www.gsia.org.uk/reprints/1994/gi199411.pdf.

L [?]
Nichols,Melton

The words
"L [?] NICHOLS MELTON PLUMBER" seen on a lead pump in Melton Carnegie Museum,
Melton Mobray, Leics. No further information found.

Nordsee
Pumpen,Jesteburg,Germany

Seen on a
pump offered for sale on ebay, and very similar models (but without any
trademarks) have been noted at Clearwell, Glos; Llanychaer, Pembs; Bransgore,
Hants; Wangford and Darsham, Suffolk.

Norton
Hamar,Tywyn

Seen on a
large Joseph Evans pump in Bryncrug, Gwynedd, and is therefore likely to be the
name of the installer. No history of the firm found, but Norton Hamar was born
in Bishops Castle c.1877 and his son Eric was born in Towyn (as it was spelled
then) in 1909.

G. C.
Ogle & Sons Ltd,Perseverance Works,Ripley,Derby

"G. C.
Ogle[...] Ripley, Derby" seen on a chain pump on a farm at Newhaven, Derbs. The
company advertised themselves as manufacturers of rollers, harrows and drags,
and also produced two-stroke petrol engines pre-/post-First World War. George
Clarke Ogle (1826-1908). The company still trades today, as Hydraulics UK Ltd,
Victoria Road, Ripley.

Ohio

This name
found on a small barrel pump in Wouldham, Kent, with what might be a "4" just
below it. There is an Ohio Pump Co in Salem, Ohio, USA - but no evidence of any
link.

"S.
Owens & Co, Engineer, London" features on
two pumps at Quainton, Bucks, one at East Challow, Oxon, examples at East End
and Preston Candover, Herts, and one in Rye, E. Sussex. Another, near Warwick,
reads "Owens & Co., Engineers, Whitefriars St., London". Another pump is
reported in Horningsham, Wilts, to have the maker's name "Owen & Son,
Engineers, London". Their catalogues show that they made an enormous range of
"Pumps, Fire Engines, Garden Engines, Sluice Valves, Hydrants &c". There's
a reference to Messrs. S. Owens & Co's engineering works at Arlesey, Beds,
and to Owen's Pump Works closing there in 1925, but it's not clear whether this
is the same company. The very impressive pumps at Hampton Court, Esher,
Stalbridge, Cranfield, Brastead, Beverley, Ickenham and Ipplepen have now been
confirmed to be made by Owens.

Paragon

The name "PARAGON" has been noted on a small but growing number of
pumps dotted around the country. It is usually accompanied by typical Lee Howl
markings such as a flag - very similar but not identical to the traditional Lee
Howl flag - and their bold statement "All British Made". The image opposite
shows the name and flag very clearly on a
small lift pump in
Hertfordshire which has been renovated. Other locations include Borde Hill
Gardens, nr Haywards Heath, W. Sussex; Ferring, W. Sussex; Gluttons Bridge,
Derbs; and St. Piran's Well, Trethevy, near Tintagel, Cornwall. Furthermore
there's an old paraffin/petrol pump in Llanychaer, Pembs, at the heart of which
is "The Paragon No 4 Semi-Rotary Pump".

After
much research, we've discovered Paragon pumps advertised within Lee Howl
advertisements and catalogues; it seems that the company adopted this name at
some latter stage, and was still using it in the late 1930s.

Parry
Pumps

"PARRY"
seen on pumps in Woodbridge and Pakenham, Suffolk; Weedon, Bucks; Myra Castle,
near Strangford, Co. Down; Milborne. St. Andrew, Dorset; and reportedly on one
in Ardleigh, Essex. Three of the pumps also carry the words "British Make", and
they look identical to a Lee Howl model. A pitcher pump offered for sale over
the internet carried the words "PARRY PUMPS" around its cap.Very little can be confirmed about
this company, but it is possible that they were Parry Pumps of Walsall. In
February 1989 The London Gazette carried a notice that Parry Pumps Ltd,
Valve Manufacturers, was one of a number of companies that were to be wound up
voluntarily. There is no confirmation that this was indeed the company which
produced the pumps we've seen.

T.
Paskin,Dudley

"T. PASKIN DUDLEY" reported on a pump at
Brewood, Staffs. A Thomas Paskin, pump maker, appeared in the 1841 census for
Sedgley (now in West Mids), and with an address at Stone Pit Lane.

See also D. Williams, Dudley,
below.

W.
Pearson,Bedale

Seen on
lead pumps in Carthorpe and Thirn, N. Yorks. No further
information.

Petter
& Edgar,Yeovil

Found on
pumps in Tintinhull and East Coker, Soms. John Bazeley Petter had an
ironmonger's business in Yeovil in 1865, and went into partnership with Henry
F. Edgar a few years later to produce an expanded range of ironmongery,
agricultural implements and machinery, including the "Nautilus" grate that was
installed in Balmoral and Osborne House. Henry Edgar died in 1886, but Petter
went on to develop oil engines which by 1912 were being widely exported. He
established the Westland Foundry in 1914, which developed ultimately into
Westland Aircraft. Read more at
http://www.yeovilvision.co.uk/data/57.htm.

Phillips & Hopwood, Engine Makers.

Built the
Exchange Pump, Cornhill, London. Samuel Phillips was making fire engines by
1760; in 1797 the firm became Phillips & Hopwood; in 1811 it was James
Hopwood; by 1818 it was Hopwood & Tilley; by 1825 Tilley & Co; and
around 1853 Shand, Mason & Co. Merryweather & Sons Ltd took them over
in 1928.

The
Phoenix Engineering Company Ltd,Phoenix
House,Chard,Soms

"PHOENIX
CO LD
CHARD" seen on a pump on Lindisfarne, Northumbs. "PHOENIX ENG CO LTD CHARD" seen
elsewhere on a diaphragm pump, together with the words "THE FLOODGATE". The
Smith Brothers established their Phoenix Iron Foundry in 1839, and in 1891
Edward Rusk bought them out to form the Phoenix Engineering Co. Ltd. The
company had links with the Pulsometer Engineering Company and produced pumps
under that brand name. Phoenix was reorganised in 1905 and subsequently
expanded their product lines. (They also had a link with well-known pump-makers
Llewellins & James of Bristol - see above.) The two World Wars saw them
exporting - among other products - their pumps around the world. The original
foundry closed in the 1960s and the manufacture of pumps ceased but the company
concentrated on other product lines, and it continues to flourish today.
More history. A book has
been written by Derrick Warren on the history of the company - "The Phoenix
Works, Chard" - published by the Somerset Industrial Archaeological Society,
ISBN 978 0 9558742 1 5. See also "Smith, Chard", below.

A
pump of the same design is also at Weaverthorpe, N. Yorks, and an incomplete
one at Thwing, E. Yorks.

Pompes
Briau, Tours,France.

"POMPES
BRIAU" and a trademark "PB" seen on a pump for sale on eBay, and another at an
architectural salvage centre. There's possibly one also at Durrington, W.
Sussex. The company seems to have been in existence since 1854. A model PB40
has now been located in Shaw, Wilts.

Pompes
Corneau, Deville,Charleville,France.

An unusual
immigrant. Seen on a Model 33 pump in Shere, Surrey, and another in some
gardens opened to the public in Ferring, W. Sussex. A Model 34 was spotted in a
shop in Moira, Co. Down, and a Model 32 was offered for sale on French
e-Bay.

Pompes
JapyFesches-Le-ChatelFrance

"JAPY" and
various combinations of numbers seen on small pumps, including a semi-rotary,
offered for sale on eBay. The company is still in existence, and manufactures
hand pumps, including small lift pumps and semi-rotaries, designed to pump
acids, water, seawater, petrol, diesel fuel, oils and
solvents.

W.
Pope, Topsham,Devon.

Nameplate
seen on a pump in Topsham, Devon. White's Devonshire Directory of 1850 lists
Wm. H. Pope under "Painters, Plumbers and Glaziers". (And the Universal British
Directory of Trade, Commerce & Manufacture published c.1794 has a Simon
Pope, plumber & glazier, listed as a resident of Topsham.)

J.
Portnell, Wincanton.

Their name
appears on a Bamford's pump in North Cheriton, Soms.

William
Prockter,Southgate
St,Launceston,Cornwall.

Pumps in
South Petherwin and Tregeare, Cornwall, carry the name "PROCKTER LANSON".
Lanson is an archaic version of the name Launceston and a William Prockter,
ironmonger, traded in the town at least over the period
1851-1881.

Seen on
small pumps all over England and Wales, and which can be bought new at garden
centres. Some, however, are seemingly much older - we know of one which was
bought from a salvage yard 20 years ago - and I've not yet got to the bottom of
this, despite writing to Puteus about it (no reply). See also the "N" logo used
by the Chinese company Tianjin Shirun International
Trade Co., Ltd on practically identical pumps, and the enigmatic
"B" and "PW" pumps listed at the bottom of the page.

And now
"A. RANKIN" has turned up (see right), and Alexander has subsequently been
confirmed as the son of Charles. Alexander Rankin is currently registered as a
business in Magherafelt.

Alexander Rankin & Son Ltd60 Main
StreetCastledawson MAGHERAFELT

Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries,Agricultural Engineers,Ipswich.

"RANSOME"
or "RANSOME & SIMS" reported on pumps in Ridgewell, Essex, and in
Somerleyton, Monks Eleigh and Stowmarket, Suffolk. A book has been written by
Brian Bell about this company - ISBN 1-903366-15-1.

"RANSOME IPSWICH" seen on a flywheel and crank pump in the Museum
of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket. The company was originally called Ransome
& Son, from 1809, and a notice at the museum claims that a final "s" was
added to the name from 1846.

RC

Found on a
pump in Borth, Ceredigion; Brackenfield, Derbs; at an auction at Welland,
Worcs; and on a very smart brass pump in private hands. Currently unknown
manufacturer, although another "RC" pump (with a "3" on the barrel) was
included in a job lot of European (i.e., non-British) pumps offered for sale by
a Belgian dealer at an agricultural show in Malvern, Worcs. An "RC 8" is at
Stapehill, Dorset, and one has also turned up at an antique dealers in the USA,
with embellishments which might suggest a Chinese origin. There's an RC 4 at Thornford, Dorset.The best bet so far is a company
called Richardson & Cruddas Ltd, of India, established in 1858 and still
going strong. They currently produce the India Mark II hand pump which has
found wide use in developing countries.

"Real"

Seen on a
pump at Pentrich, Derbs, and also (middle image) on a pump offered for sale on
eBay. This latter pump also carried a name on the pump handle, which could be
read as "C Allen's". (Research continues - see C. Allen & Sons, Taunton,
above.)

"RICHMOND
& SON. ENGINEERS. CHELMSFORD." reported on a large roadside pump in
Southminster, Essex. English
Heritage reports: "Of importance as the only known identifiable casting of
the Richmond Foundry and one of only 2 obelisk survivors, the other circa 1850
at Ridgewell. [Essex and the Industrial Revolution. John Booker, E.R.O. 66.
1974.]"

Richter
Spielgeräte GmbH,Frasdorf,Germany.

Seen on a
modern hand pumps at the Falkirk Wheel, Falkirk; Stanwick, Northants; a park in
Coventry, and various other locations.They also market their products under the
name "unitedplay".

Riddels
Ltd,Belfast.

"RIDDELS
LIMITED BELFAST" seen on a pump at Ballymacricket, Co. Antrim, and also at
Holywood, Co. Down. An 1877 trade directory lists a Riddel & Co.,
furnishing and manufacturing iron mongers, at 49 Donegall Place, Belfast. John
Riddel & Son of Lisburn today describe themselves as wholesale hardware
merchants, established in 1803. Is this the same company?

J.
Ridgway & Sons,Chester.

"J.
RIDGEWAY & SONS CHESTER" reported on a pump at Bretton, Flintshire. There
was a James Ridgway in Castle St., Chester, described in the 1911 census return
as a "Mineral Borer and Well-Sinker", but so far no other evidence has
emerged.

"T ROBERTS
[LTD?] WARWICK FOUNDRY" seen on a pump at Barford, Warks. Thomas Roberts's iron
foundry is reported to have been in business as far back as 1810, although an
entry in the London Gazette in Dec 1816 gave notice that "the partnership
between George Baldwin and Thomas Roberts, in the business of Iron-Founders,
carried on at Warwick, in the firm of G. Baldwin & Co" was to be dissolved,
and that Thomas Roberts was carrying on the business by himself. Roberts's iron
foundry had moved to the Coventry road by 1822 and "deservedly obtained
considerable reputation for making all descriptions of machinery", remaining in
business for a further half century.

James
Aston Roden,Underhill StBridgnorth.

"J Aston
Roden, Maker, Bridgnorth" found on a pump in Oldfield, Shrops. James Roden was
established as an iron and brass founder in Underhill St, Bridgnorth, by 1861.
His partnership with Henry Knott was dissolved in 1865, and the firm continued
in light engineering under his son, James Aston Roden, until around
1926.

Root,Ipswich

Seen on a
pump at Tattingstone White Horse, Suffolk. William Root, plumber of Ipswich,
was in business at least over the period 1871-1889, and at one stage employed
13 men and 5 boys.

W.
Rowe,Yeovil.

Reported
on a pump at Long Sutton, Soms, but the words have practically corroded
away.

Runwell

See
Ashwell & Nesbit, above.

The Safety Water Elevator
Company,Dunstable.

a. Found on a pump in Grittleton, Wilts, and also at St. James
South Elmham and Chattisham, Suffolk; apparently there's one at Cockayne
Hatley, Beds, as well.

b. A different style
manufacturer's label found on a model at the cottages near Rousham House, Oxon,
reads: "THE
SAFETY WATER ELEVATOR CO WORKS DUNSTABLE".

c.
Another badge, found on eBay.

The Safety Water
Elevator Co had offices and showrooms at 104, Leadenhall St., London, but their
factory was in Dunstable, Beds. In 1905 they advertised the "Simple, strong,
but ingenious Jonet's Patent" pump as being suitable for wells 10-1000 ft deep,
and for a price of £10. It's not actually a pump, and works on the
principle of buckets on a chain, operated by a handle.See:
http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/52110/water-elevator-advertisment-1905/.The Dunstable and District Local History Society has researched
these devices and provided me with a detailed explanation of how they work.
Thanks!

a.

b.

c.

J SCOTT
Junr,Plumber,Cookstown.

Seen on a
pump in Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry, and with the name "WINNINGTON & Co
WILSON ST BELFAST" dated 1902, on the other side. There is currently a W. J.
Scott & Sons, plumbers, of Cookstown.

"JOHN
SEFTON & CO ENGINEERS BELFAST" seen on a pump a pump at Magherally, Co.
Down. Very little found on this company, other than that they were reported as
being bankrupt in 1895.

William
Shalders,Hydraulic Engineer,Bank Plain,Redwell
St.,Norwich.

Examples
of their large pumps are in Norwich, Cringleford, Hethersett and Wymondham
(possibly also in Gorleston-on-Sea), Norfolk. The company was also the maker of
the much smaller Shalders' Patent Fountain Power Pump, one of which survives on
Wymondham Railway Station. Advertisements for pumps produced by the company
appeared in Whites 1845 Directory and Gazetteer of Norfolk, Hunt &
Co's 1850 Directory of E. Norfolk & parts of Suffolk, and Kellys 1853
Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. The company also exhibited
at the Great Exhibition.

Shijiazhuang Dingxin Metal Products Co.,
Ltd,Shijiazhuang,Hebei,China

This company advertises itself as
the manufacturer of various modern cast iron pumps appearing around the UK
today. No evidence of any trademark.

S.
Shannon,Belfast.

Seen on a
Belfast pattern pump offered for sale over the internet.

Sigma Group,Czech
Republic.

The trident seen on an NP75 pump in the old greenhouse at Whitland
Abbey, Carms, and a number of other locations, is the trademark of the
Sigma Group, of the Czech
Republic, who currently make a wide range of modern electrically operated
pumps. Their web site confirms that they've been around since 1868. But how did
this pump find its way to Whitland Abbey? Also seen on a pump in Levens,
Cumbria.

An NP-75 at
Heversham, Cumbs, sports a trident and "ON 112220", and an NP-90 has turned up
in private hands in Spratton, Northants, also with this number. Just to confuse
things further, "ON 112220" also appears on a Kovoplast Standard T pump in
Exton, Devon. At Brownsea Island Farm, Dorset, there's a semi-rotary with the
words "ORIGINAL SIGMA PUMPY", "K3", "MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA" and a trident on
it.

Seen on a
semi-rotary at Hilton, Dorset. A subsidiary of Sigma, set up in the UK in 1935
(See "Sigma/More") above.

A. C.
SimpsonArmagh

Seen on a
pump at Palace Stables, Armagh. The name "A. C. Simpson" features in Armagh
history as a building contractor, but there's no confirmation that this firm
had anything to do with the pump.

Smith,Chard

"SMITH
CHARD" reported on a pump in private hands which came out of a garden in
Winsham, Somerset. See The Phoenix Engineering Company, above.

George
Smith & Co,Sun Foundry,Glasgow.

Name found
on a large cast iron pump in St. Peter Port, Guernsey. The company was founded
in 1858 and was one of the leading Scottish firms in producing decorative
ironwork, their range including ornamental fountains, bandstands, gates and
railings. They grew quickly, moving to larger premises in 1875, although after
a further move they closed down in 1899. Read much more at
http://www.scottishironwork.org/georgesmith.htm.
There are further examples of almost identical pumps at Faversham, Kent; Elie,
Fife; and Wick, Highland.

They produced small
pumps too, which carry the same distinctive spout design as the larger pumps.
Examples can be found at Darvel and Sorn, East Ayrshire; Plockton, Highlands;
Redhouses, Islay, Argyll & Bute; and Headcorn, Kent.

J.
Smith,Whitchurch.

Reportedly
the manufacturer of a pump in Prees, Shrops.

N.
Smith,Newry.

Seen on a
pump in Clogher, Co.Tyrone.

W. H.
Smith,Whitchurch.

Reportedly
the makers of a pump in Bickley, Shropshire.

Smith & Watson Ltd,Ironmongery Stores,Ross.

Nameplate
found on a contractor's pump in private hands in Ross-on-Wye. The hedgehog
image is one that has long been associated with Ross-on-Wye, but I can find no
further information on the company. It remains likely that the pump was made by
another manufacturer, such as Davies Bros of Wolverhampton, or Appleby's of
Renishaw. Joseph Evans made them too, but they usually managed to include their
Lion trademark somewhere on the pump.

Sollory,Nottingham.

"SOLLORY",
"Plummers" [sic] and a date - 1826 - found on a lead pump at Wollaton Hall,
Notts. Further research shows an entry for "Sollory John, Plumber &
Glazier, Bridlesmith Gate" in Hodson's 1814 Directory for Nottingham. "Henry
Sollary [sic] & Son, plumbers, glaziers, gas, bar & steam fitters,
brass founders" appear in various directories for Mount St, Nottingham, in
1876, 1885 and 1891, and in St. James St in 1915. A James Sollory, plumber, is
listed in the 1881 Census for Nottingham.

C. W.
Southall,Comhampton,Ombersley,Worcs.

"C.W.SOUTHALL" reported stamped on the handle of a Thomas &
Wilks pump in Kidderminster. William Southall was a blacksmith at 53 Gilgal,
Lower Mitton, Stourport, in 1891. By 1901 he and his son, Charles William
Southall, were working together at the same address as Pump Makers/Well
Sinkers. Charles William Southall was recorded ten years later in the 1911
census for Comhampton, near Ombersley, Worcs, as a Pump Manufacturer.

W.
Sparrow,Martock.

Found on a
pump at Montacute House, Soms, and another in Martock, Soms. William Sparrow
(b. 1836) established the Somerset Wheel and Wagon Works in 1868 and by 1871
the company is recorded as employing 38 staff. Entries in Kelly's Directory
continued until 1875 ("William Sparrow, Engineer, millwright, Brass and Iron
founder, agricultural implement maker, and all kinds of iron and wood wheels,
Somerset Wheel and Wagon Works.") but in 1876 he apparently sold the
company. He must have continued in business and by the time of WWI William
Sparrow was employing 80-100 men. Records show that the company produced almost
7000 artillery wheels, 800 howitzer wheels, 250 steel bomb carriages and over
three quarters of a million tent pegs. Today there's still a William Sparrow
Ltd operating from Sparrow Works, Bower Hinton, Martock.

Charles
Steel,16, Crossgate,Cupar

"STEEL
CUPAR 1861" seen on a pump at Letham, Fife, and "STEEL CUPAR 1868" on one at
Moonzie, Fife. The trade directories for the area show Charles Steel, Plumber,
at 16 Crossgate, Cupar, in 1861 and 1862, but the entry at that address for
1866 is for "Mrs. Charles Steel, Plumber". Thanks to the folk at
Cupar Heritage Centre for
providing key information allowing this identification to be made.

Stevenson & Turner Ltd,63, Pilot St,Belfast.

Later of 1-17 West St,
Belfast.

Belfast
street directories of 1901 and 1910 describe them as "lead and composition pipe
manufacturers, and general plumbers' furnishers, metal merchants". The firm
isn't mentioned in the 1880 directory, although Stevenson name do appear as
foundry or metal workers. The standard pumps in their catalogue are mainly
those of Lee Howl, but they also advertise "Belfast" pattern pumps (offering to
include the customer's name around the pump head).and double-wheeled deep well
pumps. Both types are widely seen in Ireland but hardly ever in GB.

T R
Stewart,Portadown

Seen on a
pump near Birches, Co. Tyrone. No further information.

Stock Sons & Taylors Ltd,Temple St, Birmingham

Seen on a pump in Raglan, Mon; in Alstone, Glos; on a lift &
force pump that was originally in an old house in Herefordshire; and another
has now been moved to a house in Ballycowan, Co. Down. There's also one at the
Museum of Lincolnshire Life, in Lincoln.

A
slightly different maker's plate was seen on a lift and force pump, very
similar to the Herefs pump, which was for sale in Cheltenham, Glos, and giving
their address as Temple St, Birmingham. Evidence shows the company as being
active in 1901 and in 1921.They also made sanitary ware, and were as some stage
located in Berkley Street, Birmingham.

They
went into liquidation in 1967, although by that time were described as "LEAD,
GLASS, OIL AND COLOUR MERCHANTS of Charles Edward Road,
Birmingham".

J.
Stone & Co.,Arklowe RdDeptford

"J. STONE
& CO DEPTFORD" seen on a pump in Dorking, Surrey. J. Stone & Co was
founded by Josiah Stone in a workshop in Deptford in 1831 and it is recorded
that in 1842 they "moved to railway arches where he made hand pumps and manual
fire engines". From 1881 their engineering works moved to Arklowe Rd ,
Deptford, where they expanded enormously, establishing a Fastener Division, a
Boiler Division, a Rail Division, and a Laundry Division. After various name
changes and mergers the Deptford factory closed in 1969.

Alfred
Syer Ltd.,14, Pentonville RdLondon N1

"A.Syer,
[obscured word which might just be Pentonville Rd], London" seen on a pump in
Great Walsingham, Norfolk, and - very clearly - also on a pump in Osmington,
Dorset. The company made
coal hole
covers, many examples of which can still be found in London.

Tasker
& Sons,Andover,Hants

William
Tasker and his brother founded the Waterloo Ironworks in 1813 and his sons took
over the business in 1857. By 1865 they were producing steam engines. It became
a private company in 1932. By 1937 it was advertisng itself as "General
engineers and trailer builders", and post-war it used the name "Tasker
Trailers". By 1961 it had 650 employees, but after a series of takeovers the
works were closed and finally demolished in 1984. The brand name was dropped in
the late 1990s. A Taskers chain pump reportedly survives at the Science Museum,
London.

There's a
pump carrying this logo in private hands in Harpenden, Herts, one in
Shelfanger, Norfolk, and another in Trottiscliffe, Kent. I can find nothing so
far on its maker.

"THEMAC"The Metal Agencies
Company Ltd.,31-35 Queen Sq,Bristol

a.
"THEMAC" seen on a pump in a field in Winterbourne, S. Glos, which also carries
the number 867-36. Features of the pump are very similar to those of the CLIMAX
range, made by Thomas & Son of Worcester (see below).

b. "THEMAC" also found on a pump of a
different design in Grouville, Jersey. Very similar ones at Boncath, Pembs;
Monxton, Hants; Moreleigh, Devon; and Hill, S.
Glos.

c. "THEMAC" also found on semi-rotaries
in Weston-super-Mare, N. Soms, and Glastonbury, Soms.The Metal Agencies Company was
established in Bristol in 1894 and produced a wide range of products for the
ironmongery and builders merchants' trade. Its Head Office was at Queen Sq, but
it had showrooms and warehouses in a number of Bristol locations, including
Avon Works, Winterstoke Rd, Ashton Gate/Bedminster. The company published
voluminous catalogues for many years and traded until at least
1970.

a.b.

b.

c.

Thomas & Son,Worcester.

"THOMAS & SON WORCESTER" is on a pump on the outskirts of
Worcester, on one at Leigh Sinton, Ripple, Worcs; and on another in Carlisle,
Cumbs. The words "MADE FOR THOMAS & SON WORCESTER" is on one at Ladywood,
Worcs. The firm was well known for its Climax range of windmills and pumps, and
the name "CLIMAX" can be widely found on pumps in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex,
Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Shrops, Cornwall, Sussex and Yorks, some of which
also carry Climax part numbers. The pumps have a distinctive vertical slide
bar; this reflects the windpump role where it would be connected via a linkage
to the sails. The "rack and cog" gearing feature seems to be unique in the UK,
but there are pumps of US manufacture which employ this design. The name
"CLIMAX" appears on a stopcock attached to a Joseph Evans pump at Thorpe
Abbotts, Norfolk. The name THEMAC (see above) appears on a pump in
Winterbourne, S. Glos, which carries a Climax stopcock and is obviously made by
the same company. A Climax flywheel and crank deep well pump is at Sparham,
Norfolk, and another has turned up in Hong Kong.

And there's a very unusual Climax pump jack at Ridgewell,
Essex.The owner of
Thomas & Sons was a well-liked local benefactor, fondly known as "Pumpy
Thomas".

Thomas
& Wilks,Kidderminster.

"THOMAS
& WILKS KIDDR" seen on pumps in The Grove
at Ryall, Worcs; Rushock, Worcs; Tibberton, Worcs and Broughton Hackett, Works.
Also on a renovated pump in Beverley, E. Yorks; on a pump in a garden in
Carlisle; and on a name plate behind a pump in Quatford, Shrops. All I can find
is that they were pump makers and plumbers, and that accounts for the years
1891-1905 still exist. Nearby, in Ripple, Worcs, a pump displays the name "J.
THOMAS KIDDR", and I
don't yet know if this is the same company or a different one. See also "J.
THOMAS LATE INSTON. KIDDR", below, under "INSTON".

Thompson & xxx.

Seen on
the enormous pump in Bedford Row, Holborn, London. Rest of inscription
obscured by layers of paint. Another pump in Queen Square, London, clearly made
by the same company, but no name present.

Exporters
of various replica pumps, including a typical Irish cowtail pump such as the
one at Wick, S. Glos. (See H. McManus & Sons, Ballymena, above.) They have
also in the past advertised a pump with an "N" logo within a hexagon, and these
trademarks can be found on pumps in Tewkesbury, Glos; Lugwardine, Herefs;
Broadmoor, Pembs; Charlestown, Cornwall; and other locations. One such at
Erwood, Powys, has an "N" logo on its extension pipe. Some pumps on Tianjin's
website now (2016) carry a "B" logo within a hexagon, and this mark has been
seen on pumps at Cleasby, N. Yorks; Iddesleigh, Devon; nr Shawhead, Dumf &
Gall; St. Clears, Carms, Castleton, Derbs, Offham, Sussex, and Drumbo, Co.
Down. (Also reported on a pump at Carlanstown, Co. Meath, Republic of Ireland,
sitting on top of an extension pipe carrying the "P" trademark of Puteus.) In
fact, many of their pumps are suspiciously similar to "P"
pumps.It's likely
that they also produce a very similar pump with an "H" trademark, found by
Marcus Simms on a pump offered for sale online.

TrahernGeo.D. Roper Corp
,Rockford,ILL.USA

Seen on a
pump in a garden in Stanton, Suffolk, restored to working condition about 20
years ago. Another, practically identical, model is at the Gressenhall
Workhouse & Farm Museum, Norfolk. The Trahern Pump Company was established
in Rockford, Illinois, in the 1860s, and bought up by
Ropers in 1906.

George
Turner,Iron Founder,63, Dorset
St,Fleet St,London.

"TURNER,
63 DORSET ST, FLEET ST" seen on a pump in Lewisham (upper image, opposite), and
at Abthorpe, Northants."TURNER, DORSET ST FLEET
ST LONDON" seen on a pump in Hertford, and "TURNER, DORSET ST, FLEET ST, [and
probably LONDON]" seen at Hunsdon, Herts (lower image,
opposite).The
company is mentioned in "The
Every-Day Book", written in 1825-26 by William Hone: "In 1821, the water
for the fountain at Tottenham High Cross, represented in the engraving, was
obtained by boring to a depth of one hundred and five feet, at the expense of
the parish, for public accommodation. The water rises six feet above the
surface, and flowing over a vase at the top of the column into a basin, as
represented in the engraving, it pours from beneath. The boring for this spring
and the fountain were suggested by Mr. Mathew, who first obtained water in
Tottenham, by that method, and introduced the practice there. The pillar was
designed by Messrs. Mathew and Chaplin, and executed by Mr. Turner of
Dorset-street, Fleet-street, the well known manufacturer of the cast iron
pumps; and not to withhold from him any of "his blushing honours," be it noted
that he was till lately a common-councilman of the ward of Farringdon Without,
where he still maintains his reputation as a "cunning workman in iron," and his
good name as a good pump-maker, and as a worthy and repectable man. Public
spirit should rise to the height of giving him, and others of the worshipful
company of pump-makers, more orders."

William
Turton,Kidderminster

"TURTON'S MILL STT KIDDR" seen on a
pump at Harvington Hall, Harvington, nr Kidderminster."WILLIAM TURTON KIDDERMINSTER" hard to make out on a telephoto
shot of a pump at Woodcote Green, Worcs. Richard and George Turton established
Albion Foundry in Mill Street/Pitts Lane in 1831. Later in the 1830s they also
opened a foundry at Caldwall, leaving the Albion Foundry in the hands of John,
William and Jude Turton who by 1880 had sold it to Herbert Bale (see above).
Other pumps in Chaddesley Corbett are identical.

The
company was founded in 1778 by John Tylor (b. 1756), who was a Quaker. It
became J. Tylor and Sons Ltd in 1892, and in turn was renamed Tylors (Water
& Sanitary) Ltd in 1920 and Tylors of London Ltd in 1947. They initially
specialised in making tea urns, but by the end of the 19th Century had moved
into manufacturing a wide range of hydraulic and sanitary equipment, including
fire engines. They existed until 1974, when the company was sold and broken
up.

(a) Seen on a pump in Woodbridge,
Suffolk.

(b) Seen on a pump at Ifield Mill, nr
Crawley, W. Sussex

(c) Pound St., Carshalton, Greater London.

(d)
Found on pumps in Calbourne and Newtown, Isle of Wight, and
Bourton-on-the-Water, Glos.

(e) On pumps in Gloucester and Ewelme, Oxon.
Reportedly also one one in Steeple, Essex.

(f) On a pump in private
hands in Dorking, Surrey.

(g) On a pump in
Ferry Lane, Norwich.(h) On a pump in Elstree Rd., Bushey Heath,
Herts

Seen on a
pump at Fen Drayton, Cambs. John Birt Ulph (1831-1906) was a St. Ives man. The
1861/71/81 censuses record him as being a partner in an ironmongery business,
but by 1891 he was recorded as "ironmonger and valuer" - apparently a "metal
trades valuer". In 1885 he took on a junior partner, Mr. F.T.Ruston, although
his sons also worked in the family business at 25, Crown St., St. Ives. In
latter years the business carried on as F.T.Ruston & Son.

UNICEF
DPHE

Seen on a
pump at Cambridge's Museum of Technology. The pump also carries the marking
"UMI 80 6". DPHE = Dept of Public Health Engineering, Bangladesh, and
their
website contains details of this model pump.

J.
Villiers,Well Engineer,Beverley.

"J.
VILLIERS WELL ENGINEER BEVERLEY" seen on pumps at Aike, Tickton, Rudston and
Fraisthorpe E. Yorks. One at Skerne, E. Yorks read "J. VILLIERS ENGINEER
BEVERLEY". A further pump at Cherry Burton, E. Yorks,
is clearly a Villiers model but carries no inscription. J. Villiers appears in
Bulmer's Directory of Beverley in 1892.

John Wainwright,Clifton-upon-Teme,Worcs

"J
WAINWRIGHT CLIFTON ON TEME" seen on a pump at an architectural salvage company.
Littlebury's Directory and Gazetteer of Worcester & District 1879 lists
John Wainwright, pump maker and well sinker; the 1881 Census has him as a
Machinist & Pumpmaker; and the 1891 Census has John Wainwright,
Agricultural Machine and Pumpmaker.

"The
Wallace Chain Pump" and "J. Wallace & Sons Ltd, Dennistoun, Glasgow" seen
on a chain pump at Castleward, near Strangford, Co. Down. John Wallace &
Sons of Graham Square, Dennistoun, Glasgow, was founded in 1857 and in 1961 the
company was described as: "Manufacturers of agricultural machinery and
implements including elevator potato diggers, spinner potato diggers, grain
drills and turnip sowers" with 100 employees. A 1923 price list offers their
chain pumps for sale.

James
Ward,(Worcester) Ltd.Engineers.

Name plate
on a pump in the yard of the Tudor Cafe, Friar St., Worcester.

"Warners
Patent London" appears on the handle of a pump that I've acquired (c), and
"John Warner & Sons, London, Manufacturers" appears on a pump at Amberley
Working Museum, W. Sussex (d).

Pumps at
St.Lawrence, Isle of Wight; West Chiltington, Sussex; and Ixworth, Suffolk,
carry the words "Warners London" on their caps (e), and one in Houghton, Cambs,
carries the inscription "John Warner & Sons, Hydraulic Engineers, Crescent,
Cripplegate, London".Elsewhere it's stated that they were a brass, iron and bell
founder (and not just any old bell founder - in 1856 they cast the first Big
Ben, which unfortunately cracked), making pumps, horse gears, garden furniture
and ornaments and fire-fighting equipment at the Crescent Foundry, Cripplegate.
Also given as Spitalfields.

Lift & force
pumps at both the Kingsbury Watermill Museum, St. Albans, and Shuttleworth
House, Beds, have a complex maker's mark comprising a crescent moon with the
initials "J.W&S" and "Crescent London" written within it, and next to it a
bell motif (carrying a crest and "Patent"), and the word "Trademark". This
trademark has now been found in a Warner's catalogue dated 1876
(f).

The large formal pump at Marden, Kent,
carries the wording "J. WARNER AND SONS LD
LONDON".

A Warners flywheel and crank pump at
High Easter, Essex, also carries a coat of arms (g). This relects a royal
warrant, and their catalogues proudly proclaimed "By Special Appointment to Her
Majesty the Queen".The name "WARNERS LONDON" appears on the cast iron "plank" of a
lift & force pump at Lulworth Castle, East Lulworth.
(h)

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

f.

g.

h.

Robert
Warner & Co.,Hall Lane,Walton-on-the-Naze,
Essex.

"R Warner
& Sons Walton on the Naze" has been reported on a well pump. It turns out
that the Warner family acquired land in Walton-on-the-Naze and there they
established a second foundry - The Foundry Works - on Hall Lane. They exhibited
'a large variety of pumps' at the Royal Agricultural Show in York in 1900 and
in 1911-1914 were apparently well known for their steam pumps. A catalogue from
the era advertises "Windmills, wind-power pumping, irrigating, draining and
corn-grinding equipment, etc.", under the name of "Robert Warner & Co, of
the Crescent Foundry, Cripplegate, London EC, and The Foundry Works,
Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex". The Foundry Works employed up to 300 people at its
peak and continued production after Robert's death in 1896. The business was
sold in 1921 and finally closed in the 1960s.

"Robert Warner Pumps Ltd" seen on a pump in Grouville, Jersey, in
association with the name of Henry Watson & Sons.

E.
Watson, Bishops Stortford.

"E. WATSON
BS STORTFORD" seen on a pump at Braintree,
Essex, and reportedly also on a couple at Great Canfield and one at Puttock's
End, Essex.

F.
Watson, Church Street,Bp. Stortford.

Reported
on pumps in High Wych, Herts, and Matching, Essex. Transcription error for E.
Watson?

Henry
Watson & Sons,Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Seen on a
pump in Grouville, Jersey, which also carried the name of Robert Warner Pumps
Ltd. Very little known of the company other than that they were advertised as
"producing castings" and were active in 1908.

Weeks
& Petman,Perseverance
ironworks,Waterside,Maidstone

Seen on a
flywheel and crank pump near Crouch, Kent. William Weeks was recorded in 1840
as being a millwright of Maidstone, Kent. Some years later he was in
partnership with Robert Petman, and the company was described as being
ironfounders, engineers and millwrights. In 1856 the partnership had been
dissolved and William Weeks set up a new partnership with his son, also named
William. By 1889 they were moving ever more towards agricultural engineering,
and in 1893 the company was incorporated as W. Weeks and Son Ltd. In 1894 they
displayed a "self-acting steam cultivator and apparatus for dispersing vapour
and drying hops, malt, etc" and other machines at the Royal Agricultural
Society's Show. In 1915 they agreed to produce a lightweight tractor for a
local fruit and hop grower by the name of Dungey, and produced a number of
Weeks-Dungey models until 1925. By the 1940s the company was producing tar
spraying machinery, crop sprayers, orchard sprayers and farm trailers.

W.
Weir,BallyroneyCo. Down.

"W WEIR
BAL LYRONEY" [sic] seen on a pump in Ballyroney, Co. Down. No further
information, although there is an Agricultural & Garden Machinery company
by the name of John A. Weir & Sons still in business in Ballyroney.
(Established 1867)

Charles
A. Wells,Engineer,Lewes.

Reported
on a pump in Ringmer and two in Fulking, Sussex. I've established that Charles
Aspull Wells & Son, ironmongers, operated from Etna Ironworks, Lewes, in
the latter part of the 19th Century. In 1869 they obtained a 14 year lease on
"a house, workshops and factories near the bridge", from the "trustees of Henry
Attwood Thompson (a lunatic)". However, they went bankrupt, and the business
was assigned to creditors, 1891-1893. He was also a councillor, and secretary
of the Lewes Mechanics Institution at its demise in 1880.

Richard
Wells,4, Pump Row,Old Street Road,Shoreditch,London.

"Rd.
Wells, 4, Old St. Road, London" seen on a large pump in Aylesford, Kent.
Insurance records from 1823 show a Richard Wells, pump maker, at 4, Pump Row,
Old Street Road, and in 1827 a Richard Wells, lead pump maker, at 6, Pump Row,
Old Street Road. This seems to have been in Shoreditch.

Whatley
& Co.,Pewsey.

Seen on
pumps in Shrivenham, Oxon, and Easton Royal, Wilts. Oatley & Morris were
iron founders, engineers and agricultural implement makers, who set up business
in 1855 in Wootton Rivers. See: http://www.british-history.ac.uk.

They became Oatley & Whatley and in about 1870, as Whatley and
Hosier, they moved from Wootton Rivers to Pewsey to set up an Iron and Brass
Foundry & Water Engineering company. Their successors nowadays are Whatley
& Co (Pewsey) Ltd, who are apparently still in the Water Engineering
business.

H.
Wilks,Bramham.

Found on a
lead pump in Saxton, N. Yorks.

W. H. Willcox &
Co,32-38 Southwark St,London SE.(Works in Castle
St.)

"NO.1",
"ORIGINAL WILLCOX PUMP", "BRITISH MADE" and "SSA". seen
on a pump in a collection in Ballycowan, Co. Down. The company was established
in 1876 and became a public limited company in 1897. From 1899 they were
advertising semi-rotary wing pumps, which in fact seem to be the only pump type
they produced. They manufactured a wide range of engineering "requisites" and
didn't finally go out of business until 1986. Examples also found at Kew Steam
Museum.

D.
WilliamsLate T. PaskinDudley

Seen on a
pump at Long Itchington, Warks. See also T. Paskin, above.

R. H.
Williams,3 Water Street,Bristol
.

Listed in
trade directories over the period 1857-1860 as iron, wood & lead
pump-maker.

A.W.
Willis,33, Dublin Rd,Belfast
.

"W.Willis,
Dublin Road, Belfast" and the date 1900 seen on a pump in Drumbo, Co. Antrim,
Northern Ireland. A 1901 Belfast street directory lists A.W.Willis of 33,
Dublin Rd as a plumber, gas and steam fitter.

Charles Winn & Co.,Birmingham.

Found on pumps in Mickleton, Sherborne and Naunton, Glos; Lacock,
Wilts; Lambley, Notts; Staunton, Warks; Woolverton, Bath & NE Soms; and Y
Felinheli, Gwynedd (which also carries a diamond
logo). Charles Winn & Co were engineers and brassfounders. They seem to
have been established in about 1869, and produced gas and steam fittings,
plumbers' brasswork, beer engines and firefighting equipment. At
http://www.oldcopper.org/ there is
reference to their trademark being found on the bottom of a heavy brass bowl.
Their 1897 catalogue offered safety valves for sale and they were latterly
quoted as being one of Britain's biggest valve manufacturers, specialising in
high performance butterfly valves. They were still in business in 1976, when
they moved across Birmingham from Communication Row to Bordesley. They became
part of the Delta Metal Group at some stage, but eventually closed down in
1999, their valves continuing to be made under their name by Hindle Cockburns
of Leeds.

The pump at Staunton, Warks, also
carries the number 385 in a roundel, and it's thought highly likely that other
numbers seen similarly displayed are also Charles Winn pumps - some of which
also have the distinctive Charles Winn finial.

Winnington & Co,Wilson
St.,Belfast.

Winnington & Sefton

Reported
on a large pump in Dromore, Co. Down; Rock, Co.Tyrone; Stewartstown, Co.Tyrone;
and also on one at Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry. "WINNINGTON & CO ENGINEERS
BELFAST 1897" seen on a pump at Auchnacloy, Co. Tyrone. An 1861 trade directory shows
Henderson & Winnington, brass founders and gas fitters of 5 Mill St. By
1880 the firm John Winnington & Co had been established at 7 & 9,
Wilson St (click
for a detailed advertisement for the firm). By 1901 they had expanded to take
up much more of the street, as it was advertised as Winnington & Co., brass
founders, engineers and machinists of 5-15 Wilson's [sic]
St.

"WINNINGTON & SEFTON BELFAST" seen on
a pump in Ballynahinch, Co. Down. No further information on that company, but
an 1880 Belfast directory includes "Sefton, John, brass founder, 19 Dock
Street" and "Sefton, John, (of John Winnington & Co.), 19 Dock
Street.

Winwood
& Co,Bristol.

"WINWOOD
BRISTOL" just about discernible on a pump in Tytherington, Glos. There was a
firm called John Winwood, Ironfounder, of 43 & 44 Milk St., Bristol,
advertised in Pigot's 1830 Directory for Gloucestershire. A far more grand pump
at Petty France, near Dunkirk, S. Glos, carries the words "WINWOOD & Co
BRISTOL". And now we've found one at Upton Cheyney, S. Glos, on which "WINWOOD"
can just be made out, together with a more obvious "BRISTOL".

J.
Wright

Seen on a
large cast iron pump advertised for sale on eBay.

Wyatt
Brothers,Engineers,Whitchurch,Shropshire

"WYATT
BROTHERS HYDRAULIC & GENERAL ENGINEERS WHITCHURCH, SALOP." seen on pumps at
Blists Hill Museum, Shropshire, Waverton, Cheshire, and Lympstone, Devon.
The company was established in 1879 and
is still in business.

Chas
Yapp,Worcester.

On a pump
in Kempsey, Worcs. Can't find out anything about the company yet, but a George
William Yapp of Worcester was listed as a well sinker in 1905.

John
D.Young & Sons,Barnstaple.

The makers
of a pump in Chulmleigh, Devon. A trade directory of 1870 lists them as "iron
and brass founder, plumber and wholesale ironmonger, Silver street; h. 9, Taw
Vale parade".

Zwicky
Ltd.,Buckingham Av.,Slough,Bucks.

"ZWICKY
PATENT" appears on what seems to be a highly engineered and expensive
industrial pump rather incongruously installed in a traditional tiled shelter
on the green at Farnham Royal, Bucks. From the 1930s to the 60s Zwicky
advertised themselves as refuelling specialists to the aviation industry, their
products including filters, pumps, hose reels, valves, swivel connections and
emergency stop controls. An earlier advertisement from 1913 shows that at that
stage Zwicky produced simple hand pumps.

Unknown.

A fouled
anchor design seen on pumps in East Cowes, Downend and Shorwell, Isle of Wight,
pumps which seem to be MacFarlane No.1 models. Original thinking was that they
were perhaps supplied by MacFarlane's, under an Admiralty contract, but now one
has turned up in Woodleigh, Devon, complete with a possible manufacturer's
name, Hall & Son (see above).

Unknown.

One
example is at East Chiltington, E. Sussex, where the pump also carries an "80"
and might have an indecipherable name on the spout. The only other example
found is a pump in private hands in Horsham, W. Sussex. The fleur-de-lys
suggests French origin, but I've had no success at tracing the
manufacturers.

Unknown.

This HP75
mark is on pumps in Hatherden, Hants; Wilstone, Herts; Hellidon, Northants; and
other locations. It looks very similar to the NP75 produced by Kovoplast, but
also to one of the 75 mm series made by Jiangyang. There's either a link
between these two companies or somebody is blatantly copying somebody else's
design. A pump with the HP75 marking in Ardross, Highlands, also carries a
small "C" on its handle - and this "C" has also been seen on a very different
pump in Laughton-en-le-Morthen, South Yorks.See
also "HP64", below.

Unknown.

A thistle
trademark seen on a semi-rotary near Haverfordwest. Also carries the
inscription "No 5".

Unknown.

A small
pump at the Lost Gardens of Heligan, Pentewen, Cornwall, carries what looks
like "AK" in a circle, with possibly another letter between them - and many
other numbers, but they're obscured by layers of paint. There's a "75" on the
handle.

Unknown.

A small pump in the grounds of a hotel in Kents Bank,
Cumbs, carries a flower motif, "MADE IN ENGLAND" on the spout and,
on the back, "VCI". The same model has been found at Great Gransden, Cambs, and
for sale in a second hand shop in Blandford Forum, Dorset.

Currently
thought to be Charles Winn of Birmingham.

Possible
"380" on a pump at Cropredy, Oxon, and another at Aston-le-Walls,
Northants.

Unknown.

A possible
bird or swan trademark and a diamond motif, found on a pump in Newry, Co.
Down.

Unknown.

"HP" seen
on six pumps on an Oxford allotment; on some further allotments at Somersham,
Cambs; at Botany Bay, nr Catbrook, Mon; Stanwick, Northants; Ruskin Mill,
Horsley, Glos; and Keynsham, Bath & NE Soms. There's also one at Beeswing,
Dumf & Gall, which carries an "HP" in a hexagon on its base plus "HP75" on
its barrel.

Possibly
Charles Winn of Birmingham.

"434" seen
on two pumps in Great Rissington, Glos, and one in Beeby, Leics.

Unknown.

"ENGLISH
VILLAGE PUMP" An alloy label, always fixed on to the barrel with two cross-head
screws, seen on pumps in Ashby Magna, Leics; Huntington, Herefs; Llanychaer,
Llanteg and Milton, Pembs; Arlesey, Beds; Ardley, Oxon; Bainton, E.Yorks;
Witton-le-Wear, Co.Durham; Carlisle, Cumbs; and Lack, Co. Fermanagh. One at
Laugharne, Carms, also carries a Lee Howl flag and roundel. And one was offered
for sale at a garden centre in Cenarth, Carms, a few years ago. So the
conclusion is that this was a company which refurbished old pumps, affixed
their badge, and sold them on. No further information

Unknown.

"PW", seen
on a pump at Nedge Hill, near Chewton Mendip, Soms, and also on an identical
model in Wokingham.

Unknown.

"5H 3""-
seen on a pump at Boldron, Co.Durham, and Chilton Foliat, Wilts, and also with
the number "1943" on one at Speyton, Devon, and another offered for sale on
ebay.

Unknown.

A diamond
symbol and "STL" Seen on a pump for sale on eBay.

Unknown.

"PL", or
perhaps "Pt" seen on a pump for sale on eBay. "KC 88" or possibly "KG 88" on
the handle

Unknown.

"HP64"
seen on a pump for sale on eBay. See also "HP75", above.

Unknown.

"ML" or
maybe "LM" seen on a pump for sale on eBay.

Unknown.

"BS",
"2320" and a small portico motif, seen on a pump in Halstead, Essex, and
another offered for sale on eBay. Almost certainly French in origin, and could
be associated with Pompes Briau.

Unknown.

"EFA",
"No.3" and "BRITISH MAKE" seen on a semi-rotary pump.

Unknown.

"CRL" or
possibly "RCL" and "100" seen on a pump offered for sale on e-Bay.

Unknown.

"BIRMINGHAM" and a star motif seen on a pump in Maghery, Co.
Armagh., and also at Beulah, Ceredigion.

Unknown.

What seems
to be a double hexagon trademark - seen on a pump offered for sale on
e-Bay.

Unknown.

The name
"HOBB'S PATENT" seen on a lift and force pump in a salvage yard in Antrim
Town.

Unknown.

"PRIMUS"
on the barrel and an indecipherable model number on the spout of a pump at
Sidlow, Surrey.

Unknown.

"GASCOGNE"
on the barrel and "GFC 90" on the cap of a pump offered for sale on
eBay.

Unknown.

"H" on the
barrel and "KC 80-2" on the handle of a pump offered for sale on
eBay.

RIF.

"RIF" seen
on a barrel pump in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, and "RIF 4" on a pump at
Durrington, W. Sussex.

Unknown.

"DF" seen
on a pump at Orton Wistow, Peterborough, and "DF" and "3" at Longthorpe,
Peterborough. The owner of the latter believes it to be French.